Written By: - Date published: 2:12 pm, September 19th, 2024 - 15 comments
Lester Levy claims he is working so hard it’s probably not good for his health. Meanwhile, he failed to bring financials to the Health Select Committee while explaining he was doing well on cutting costs – and would continue to do so.
Written By: - Date published: 3:15 pm, August 26th, 2024 - 27 comments
Casey Costello and the Coalition government have already halved tobacco excise at a cost of up to $216mn. Today RNZ reports there remain more questions on who wrote her Ministerial papers begging for tobacco industry benefits.
Written By: - Date published: 6:52 pm, August 18th, 2024 - 33 comments
Lester Levy again asks Kiwis to pray for him. But who will pray for us, Dr Levy?
Written By: - Date published: 10:08 am, August 16th, 2024 - 14 comments
Lester Levy gave a keynote address this weak signalling painful, strong medicine is needed for Health NZ. But his claims contradict frontline staff and experts.
Written By: - Date published: 12:41 pm, August 5th, 2024 - 5 comments
After months of warnings from doctors, nurses and hospitals, a Northland patient is dead after no doctors were present at the hospital. The budget cuts and chosen austerity measures are hurting us all. Here’s more.
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, August 1st, 2024 - 21 comments
The PM of NZ is accused of spreading intentional disinformation on Health NZ as the evidence piles up against the Coalition government. Here’s how it went down.
Written By: - Date published: 9:24 am, July 30th, 2024 - 26 comments
Senior medical figures have questioned the accuracy of what the Government is saying about the health crisis in Northland. And in an example of unbelievably bad timing it has been revealed that the Goverment put aside $216 million to fund a exise duty reduction for Phillip Morris.
Written By: - Date published: 5:20 pm, July 29th, 2024 - 21 comments
Since Shane Reti and Christopher Luxon announced the Health NZ cost “blowout” and an unexpected deficit, the truth has emerged, and it’s all becomes stranger than fiction. Which claims were accurate? And which seemed to be a case of misrepresentation?
Written By: - Date published: 4:28 pm, July 28th, 2024 - 50 comments
This Government continues its trend to resembling something akin to Liz Truss’s rule of England. And Health is clearly among its targets.
Written By: - Date published: 11:25 am, July 23rd, 2024 - 96 comments
Christopher Luxon and Shane Reti took the extraordinary step of removing the Health NZ Board and replacing it with a Health Commissioner. Why did they do that and will it help the real issues facing our health system?
Written By: - Date published: 2:44 pm, July 16th, 2024 - 15 comments
The drumbeat of health warnings continues from hospitals, doctors and nurses. But is the Government prepared to listen?
Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, July 16th, 2024 - 5 comments
how’s it going five years on?
Written By: - Date published: 9:55 am, June 25th, 2024 - 17 comments
The focus groups have spoken and the Government has completed its 360 degree backflip and decided to fund Pharmac so that National can meet its pledge to introduce 13 new cancer drugs.
Written By: - Date published: 2:57 pm, June 3rd, 2024 - 10 comments
* or is it?
Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, May 15th, 2024 - 31 comments
As part of its coalition agreement NZ First is wanting to end a policy that has already ended. And the Government is struggling to work out what to do.
Written By: - Date published: 10:16 am, May 5th, 2024 - 86 comments
The Government is less than 12 months away from a change in the Deputy Prime Ministership and the transition will be a smooth one. Labour needs to be getting ready now. Because for the first time in this Country’s history this could be a one term National led Government.
Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, April 15th, 2024 - 144 comments
The final report is a carefully worded document designed particularly for the systems of power in charge of child health, wellbeing and safeguarding: health systems and their managers, medical practitioners and their professional bodies, MPs and government departments, and NGOs.
It’s also a damning indictment of the poorly evidence medical experiment that has been done on gender non-conforming children in the past decade. It’s likely to be the biggest medical scandal many of us will see.
Written By: - Date published: 11:05 am, April 7th, 2024 - 71 comments
National campaigned on the promise of getting the country back on track. How is it going?
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, March 21st, 2024 - 20 comments
Grant Robertson has given his valedictory speech in Parliament.
Written By: - Date published: 11:25 am, February 29th, 2024 - 12 comments
National spent much of yesterday ramming through under urgency and without a select committee process two measures which will have detrimental effects on Māori health.
Written By: - Date published: 2:20 pm, February 3rd, 2024 - 12 comments
Coffee and Cigarettes is an in-depth study of the human condition by Jim Jarmusch.
Written By: - Date published: 1:54 pm, February 2nd, 2024 - 6 comments
The release from the Public Health Communication Centre Aotearoa around tobacco industry interference was a glimpse behind the curtain into a troubling reality.
Written By: - Date published: 10:45 am, February 2nd, 2024 - 46 comments
Recent disclosure of the actions of associate Minister of Health Casey Costello raises the extraordinary possibility that British American Tobacco may be having an undue influence on the setting of the Government’s smoking policies.
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, January 25th, 2024 - 78 comments
Hot on the heels of the Government’s walk back from the previous Government’s smoke free policies is the disclosure that the Government is considering halting increases to excise duties on tobacco. And the Government tried to hide this.
Written By: - Date published: 9:13 am, December 23rd, 2023 - 69 comments
As National dismantles with speed some of the institutional reforms made by the last Labour Government the concern is that we may have witnessed the peak in progressive influence.
Written By: - Date published: 4:10 pm, December 22nd, 2023 - 19 comments
The coalition government robs Pita to pay Paora to appease its voter base.
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 pm, December 6th, 2023 - 45 comments
The new Government blows the dog-whistle like the pied piper.
Written By: - Date published: 12:26 pm, December 3rd, 2023 - 48 comments
This morning on Q&A and despite being pulled up on it Chris Bishop repeated National’s claim that under the Smokefree reforms there would only be allowed one tobacco retail shop in Northland when there would actually be at least 34.
Written By: - Date published: 9:06 am, December 2nd, 2023 - 74 comments
There is every reason to believe National will be chucked out in 2026.
Written By: - Date published: 10:06 am, November 28th, 2023 - 130 comments
An increase in lung cancer rates and a decrease in the amount that working families receive so that tax credits for landlords can be put in place tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of this Government. Your blood should be boiling by this stage and it is only two days in.
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, November 25th, 2023 - 73 comments
Some of the more unusual policies from the National-New Zealand First coalition agreement.
Recent Comments