Labour govt 2020-23

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Even though our health system is under enormous pressure, I'm not sure where else i'ld rather be.

In the UK the NHS is almost collapsing as latest figures show they are facing severe shortages with 110,000 health jobs unfulfilled, including needing 12,000 doctors & 50,000 nurses now.

Australia's health system is buckling too e.g. they are triaging patients in tents in the car park on the Gold Coast, Sydney & Brisbane, Cairnes has only 1 negative pressure ward, its projected they will be 85,000 nurses short under current settings in 36 months time. Nurses are leaving in droves due to burnout & they can't even gauge the full extent of the crisis as they have a disjointed system spread across Federal, State & Private institutions.

Canada is facing severe shortages and need about 60,000 nurses, Switzerland, Israel, Norway etc all desperate for health workers.

Don't get me started on the nightmare US health system..

We obviously have huge inequality of patient care across the country in our current system & massive duplication with 20 DHB's for a comparatively small population, competing with each other for resources instead of co-operating with each other & sharing resources.
The Health reforms aim to address this.

Great post Blue Skies, outstanding. It’s a a great pity our news services don’t address ss the other side of the ledger as well.

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Another Ardern disaster - National Polytechnic Te Pukenga.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-time...r-commissioner

Excerpt : " This in part reflected a very “siloed” approach to the way people were working together to establish Te Pūkenga. She said she couldn’t believe how poor the “coherence and integration” of the leadership team was. At times she felt “it’s like everyone is in Disneyland”. When she raised this sort of thought, people would not appear to realise the clock was ticking on reform or have an appropriate sense of urgency. Davis pointed to a publicly available consultants’ report dated March this year for Te Pūkenga and the Tertiary Education Commission raising various concerns about progress towards Te Pūkenga’s goals."

Disneyland is an apt description of Ardern's government with the disasters in healthcare, housing, education, law & order, cost of living and bureaucracy blow outs.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/former...MSWFZKNLQE4DM/

Excerpt : "Former Otago Polytechnic chief executive Phil Ker has called for an apology from Education Minister Chris Hipkins for turning the country's polytechnic education system into "a national disgrace". It comes in the wake of last week's apology from Te Pūkenga's acting chief executive over its beleaguered financial situation and its delays in transitioning the country's polytechnics into a single entity.

hundreds of millions of dollars had been spent to reform a system that was not actually broken.

"Those hundreds of millions have just gone into structural stuff.

"Not a single dollar has been put into improving outcomes for learners, not a single dollar to strengthening the regional providers, and so the issues that we had before Mr Hipkins started this misguided venture, are not only still there, they're worse."





This time brought in conjunction with Hipkins, the low life minister who deliberately leaked and spread misinformation on pregnant mother Charlotte Bellis to incite abuse at her & her partner for daring to question and challenge the illegal MIQ system.

Hipkins - the man busy trying to blame everyone else for the Te Pukenga crisis except himself!

A minister in charge of a disaster 3 years in the making, blaming all and sundry but taking zero responsibility!

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https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/...arts--sepuloni

'Priority' for Government to improve poor pay rates in the arts - Sepuloni

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Even though our health system is under enormous pressure, I'm not sure where else i'ld rather be.

In the UK the NHS is almost collapsing as latest figures show they are facing severe shortages with 110,000 health jobs unfulfilled, including needing 12,000 doctors & 50,000 nurses now.

Keep in mind the NHS is in summer and it still has issues.

Our health system is now dealing with all the peak winter ailments and some people then go "look a crisis!".

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Those who do the real work and who are at the frontline say that health system is in crisis.

Mr "Pike River' Little says there's no crisis.

Easy for NZers to say who is telling the truth.

But Little has the full support of Jacinda 'NO COST OF LIVING CRISIS' Ardern!

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...ning-says.html

Campaigner Melissa Vining says it's "really sad" Andrew Little has refused to describe the state of New Zealand's health system as a "crisis".

Vining, a prominent health campaigner who founded the Southland Charity Hospital with her late husband and cancer care campaigner Blair Vining, accused Health Minister Little of not listening to the workforce about the current state of the system.

Speaking to AM, Melissa said the sector had been trying to tell Little just how tough the health workforce was doing.

"I think that it's really sad that minister Little isn't listening to the call from all the medical professionals; doctors, nurses, carers… are trying to tell him that this is genuinely a crisis and the fact that he won't acknowledge that makes me feel really sad.


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Yet another disaster under Ardern and Little.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/utterl...L6WBJ6L6N4K3A/

Paywalled

Children and teenagers could suffer life-long consequences because they're not getting timely and effective mental health treatment from public services that are stretched to the limit, a group of leading psychiatrists has warned.

Eighty-eight per cent of the psychiatrists say young people are often or very often unable to access adequate mental health treatment when they need it, according to the paper, which was obtained in advance by the Herald.

A large majority of the respondents said mental health services are not fit for purpose or heading in the right direction, despite commitments from the Government to improve it.

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Yet another disaster under Ardern and Little.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/utterl...L6WBJ6L6N4K3A/

Paywalled

Children and teenagers could suffer life-long consequences because they're not getting timely and effective mental health treatment from public services that are stretched to the limit, a group of leading psychiatrists has warned.

Eighty-eight per cent of the psychiatrists say young people are often or very often unable to access adequate mental health treatment when they need it, according to the paper, which was obtained in advance by the Herald.

A large majority of the respondents said mental health services are not fit for purpose or heading in the right direction, despite commitments from the Government to improve it.

Is there anyone here who doesn't personally know of a young person in their community or family who has committed suicide? Appalling that help is so difficult to obtain, so very difficult for most it's bascially impossible, and our younger generation who need that help vote with their lives. So sad, so awfully sad.

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3 firearm incidents unfolding across Auckland tonight.

Ardern & Hipkins & Labour government - pro-crime & pro-gang policies bearing fruit big time.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/armed-...FTG6HPQ7FYH5A/

Bugger off to the UN, Ardern. Take your useless & clueless self to where you are in like company.

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3 firearm incidents unfolding across Auckland tonight.

Ardern & Hipkins & Labour government - pro-crime & pro-gang policies bearing fruit big time.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/armed-...FTG6HPQ7FYH5A/

Bugger off to the UN, Ardern. Take your useless & clueless self to where you are in like company.

It’s plain silly to say any government is pro crime - I agree that they are too soft on crime though.

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Shows you the sort of character - petty, entitled and vindictive - that Grant Robertson is.

His father did what he felt he had to do to provide his family with a decent living (nothing flash) and ended going to jail. All that Grant can do is bemoan the fact that he suddenly had no family backstop when he went to University!

What about getting a job like most of us, working nights and days to self-support?

Not only that, it’s obvious he has never created a single real job for anyone outside of taxpayer funded jobs ever in his entitled life so far.

And he thinks he has what it takes to be finance minister!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...DUVJPT6ASJWWA/

"I loved him, he was my father but I never really forgave him. It was such a stupid thing to do."

"The motivation was around his desire to keep his family together and in essence he was buying our love to a certain extent. That's a dreadful thing to even say. But his psychology at the time was that's what he needed to do and it's a real downward spiral."