Beating health care shortages requires fair pay for clinical educators
Fair pay for tertiary education providers is vital in ensuring New Zealand’s future medical workforce receives ...
News and Media Releases
The ugly state of Kiwi oral health
First published in NZ Doctor
A few weeks ago, ASMS quietly released our latest publication, Tooth be ...
Family Planning and ASMS ‘fully behind fully integrated abortion care in NZ’
Family Planning and the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists - Toi Mata Hauora say if one thing can be ...
Senior doctors share allied health worker’s frustrations
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists Toi Mata Hauora says today’s strike by allied health workers is a ...
Health Budget 2022 – Will we get better?
The Finance Minister Grant Robertson has said this year’s Budget will be all about health. We’ve written a ...
Staffing shortages elephant in the room in patient backlog plan
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists Toi Mata Hauora says a plan to clear patient waiting lists must be ...
Government ghosting health workers
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists Toi Mata Hauora says the Government continues to ghost health ...
What happens to my job under Health NZ?
On July 1st, DHBs will be disestablished and their functions will be taken over by Health NZ, including the ...
Tone deaf DHBs pay peanuts for staff wellbeing
ANOTHER CALLOUT: More than 1.2 million people attended hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) in the year to June ...
Seismic funding shift needed
In the March edition of The Specialist we have an article from our health policy analyst Lyndon Keene about what ...
‘No crisis’ – senior doctors beg to differ
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists Toi Mata Hauora says senior hospital doctors would strongly refute ...
New National Executive member
ASMS welcomes Bay of Plenty psychiatrist Dr Mark Lawrence (Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Ngā Puhi) as the newest member ...