…Clause 24 of the DHB MECA but if you have any queries or concerns about public holiday arrangements, pay, or lieu days, please get in touch with your industrial officer….
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Despatches from the front line: senior doctors talk about specialist workforce shortages in New Zealand’s public hospitals
Some Ideas about Actions for the Two-day Strike
The following are a list of things you could consider doing on the 23rd and 24th of September as part of the two-day nationwide strike. Join a one-hour picket line…
Media about the May Day strike
More than 5000 senior doctors strike over pay dispute Thousands of senior doctors around the country on strike Parts of health system ‘have already crumbled’, say striking doctors Senior doctors…
The moral injury of keeping patients waiting
Overseeing clinical work that involves most people missing out on timely care goes hard against the grain of medical training and ethics. Making the least bad decision about a patient’s…
Buller Declaration North Island Roadshow
Patient advocacy group Patient Voice Aotearoa is staging a series of public meetings across the North Island to talk about the state of the New Zealand health care system. The…
New Zealand general practitioners – self-employed contractors and sessional workers, or employees?
…practice owners – asking, “can ASMS help us”? Contractor versus employee According to the RNZCGP 2018 salary survey about half of all GPs are “contractors or employees”. ASMS membership is…
Te Whatu Ora’s workforce data mystifies doctors
Senior doctors are mystified by many of the figures Te Whatu Ora is issuing in response to yesterday’s vote to strike, says ASMS Executive Director Sarah Dalton. “Their figures about…
Heroic efforts in understaffed norm: How many full-time equivalents do we need, exactly?
…Government has put more money in the pot but, if we’re serious about rebuilding a system that provides equitable access, timely care, training and improved outcomes, and ensures public hospitals…
Minister’s intervention in ASMS’ bargaining unlawful – Union says
…the response of Health NZ Chair Lester Levy could be interpreted as undermining the bargaining process. ASMS takes issue with the minister’s misinformation about disruptions to patient care. “In his…
Luxon’s health targets delusional without workforce measures
…serious about meeting his targets he first needs to give Te Whatu Ora targets to reduce the length of time it takes to fill a vacancy, to provide an accurate…
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 pre-Budget opinion piece published in the Sunday Star Times and Stuff which looks at what’s needed…