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The strange case between the New Zealand Ministry of Health and the National Party continues, with former board member Accusations The government deliberately spreads “false information”.

Let’s quickly review how we got here –

• exist July 16two members of the New Zealand Ministry of Health board suddenly and unexpectedly resigned. As I outlined That day, it was already clear that National, the ACT and New Zealand First were systematically undermining our health system capacity and investment.
• exist July 19 only two of the seven board members remain. Labour’s Verrall said “Almost cleaned up” This is related to the fact that the government’s funding is insufficient to solve the problems of the health system. She pointed out:I suspect the outgoing board members know this, too.” One of the members who left was former National MP Amy Adams, who left this message on her Facebook page on her last day in office:

• exist July 22In Luxon and Reti announced “Miraculously” The New Zealand health deficit, I wrote, seemed more likely to be linked to “Salaries, staffing, elective surgeries, wages owed, etc.”
• As July 26different reporters and media revealed more information, including the most important point, Successful nursing activities This results in nurses’ salaries being higher than expected.
• It also proves no The 14 management levels of the New Zealand Ministry of Health

So where are we now?

The news reports appear to be accurate. Successfully recruiting more nurses is an important factor in closing the gap.

If you watched his press conference, you’ll see Luxon frequently Brag about how many nurses you hired in the past 12 months. Other elements such as back pay and pay equity also apply.

Obviously, in order to achieve the five health goals Reti set earlier this year (ER wait times, vaccinations, cancer treatments, shorter elective surgery wait times, first appointments to see specialists,) They asked the board to focus on this, and as a result, more practitioners were hired.

The CEO has spoken about this over the past few weeks, with the Ministry of Health having successfully reduced the nurse shortage rate from double digits to around 6 per cent.

In any other context, this would be good news. But in the eyes of our new National-ACT-NZ First coalition government, it’s downright bad, and the result of their “big defeat”. Insufficient funds.

I tell you, when your remit is health, it’s really inconvenient because it involves having to hire more front-line staff.

Yesterday, a former member of the New Zealand Ministry of Health committee accused the Prime Minister of spreading “False information. This segment The following shows what happened, but RNZ basically reported Luxon avoid When asked, Walker’s comments were echoed.

Unfortunately, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health are not on the same page.

A clear pattern of misrepresentation began to emerge

Now, it appears that the Luxembourg government has clearly misrepresented the Commission and its communications:

1/ Some of you may remember this happened in Life Home The board’s response was covered up by Chris Bishop before Newsroom reported on it. Under the terms of the KO review agreement, Bill English and his team received about $500,000 from the emergency housing fund to write a report that agreed with the government, and English was not required to even involve KO under the rules.

The board was satisfied and confirmed the directive, noting that English’s findings contained numerous errors and that he appeared to have had little involvement in them. Naturally, the board took no action, and the headlines were dominated by a victory for Luxon and Bishop.

2/ It also happened New Zealand Railways. Last year, Nicola Willis went to the media and claimed KiwiRail was ill-advised to try to buy a Ferrari and all we needed was one or a few Toyotas. She instructed the board to look for second-hand ferries.

but Special Committee The subsequent report revealed some key details, such as the ferries Kiwirail had procured were rail-friendly, future-proofed, fit for the Channel and cost 40 per cent below market price. The price and specification were very good, with most of the overspending relating to the need for seismic upgrades to the Port of Wellington.

The new ferry will accommodate 40 train cars, 3000 meters of lane and 1800 passengers to cope with the expected increase in passenger traffic on both sides of the channel. There will be a penalty of about $300 million on top of the estimated $500 million already incurred by cancelling the ferry plan, not to mention inflation when we have to buy it.

3. Happening Now New Zealand Health As we speakWhile the ferries and KO buildings may be mostly invisible and intangible to New Zealanders, the same cannot be said for our health system. Our doctors and nurses are valued and their voices ultimately matter.

A Government that routinely lies to the public is not a Government New Zealanders should be facing.

The directors of these organizations should also not be unfairly framed and slandered.

I think most of us expect a higher standard of integrity from government officials.

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