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Health Ministry lost the plot and heads should roll
Written By: - Date published: 9:34 am, March 9th, 2016 - 23 comments
The Health Ministry committed to spending $18m that they didn’t have on upgrading their own offices, and tried to claw the money back from the underfunded DHBs trying to deliver health care to NZ. And that seems to be just fine with Minister Coleman.
NRT: A waiting list by another name
Written By: - Date published: 1:32 pm, March 7th, 2016 - 39 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on hospital waiting lists – and those that don’t even make it on them.
Medical cannabis review
Written By: - Date published: 11:56 am, March 6th, 2016 - 31 comments
With Martin Crowe’s sad death we now learn that he too was self-medicating with liquid cannabis. The time for political timidity is past – make cannabis legally available for medical purposes.
Medicines New Zealand on Pharmac funding
Written By: - Date published: 12:42 pm, March 1st, 2016 - 36 comments
A media release from Medicines New Zealand: “While New Zealanders wait for 81 medicines, PHARMAC gives money back”…
More blood on its hands as National Ltd™cuts mental health funding in Christchurch
Written By: - Date published: 9:30 am, February 16th, 2016 - 101 comments
‘ In between slurping simpers during his most recent session of MediaWorks virtual fellatio, John ‘The Liar’ Key managed to express concern for the emotional well being of Cantabrians after yet another earthquake rattled their region. Whether John Key is actually concerned is moot, but he is certainly in a position to know there is real […]
Final hours for submission on voluntary euthanasia
Written By: - Date published: 1:08 pm, February 1st, 2016 - 1 comment
The end of today is the last chance to make a submission to Parliament on voluntary euthanasia.
The great big list of John Key’s big fat lies (UPDATED)
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, January 27th, 2016 - 79 comments
How many more lies will John Key tell today in his so-called State of the Nation address? Virtual chocolate fish to whomever guesses the closest number.
Life and Death and Cannabis
Written By: - Date published: 6:08 pm, January 8th, 2016 - 129 comments
I am taking Cannabis Oil to manage my pain as my lung cancer takes over my body. It’s sort of as simple as that really. For some people talking about dying is confronting but actually talking about it allows us to think about how it happens – it is actually as much a social event as a physical one and knowing someone is comfortable, getting good treatment and pain relief is very much part of the social dimension as the physical one.
Obesity is a structural problem
Written By: - Date published: 9:20 am, December 16th, 2015 - 59 comments
Structural problems need structural solutions. Progress on this major public health issue has been set back by a decade because we elected a useless National government.
Coleman to regulate high sugar industry
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, December 1st, 2015 - 32 comments
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman said there is a voluntary regime in place for the manufacture and sale of high sugar food but where there is is self regulation it is often ignored.
Because of the danger high sugar foods potentially pose it’s important to have a regulatory body and licensing/education regime to ensure manufacturers and retailers only provide food that has healthy outcomes.
The cost of cancer
Written By: - Date published: 12:55 pm, November 9th, 2015 - 39 comments
When people are turning in these numbers to crowd-funding for treatment something is seriously, seriously wrong.
Let them drink beer
Written By: - Date published: 1:16 pm, October 25th, 2015 - 30 comments
Health Minister Coleman provides another salient example of the surreal lengths that National will go to in order to avoid facing up to truths that they don’t approve of.
Obesity policy ignores elephant in the room
Written By: - Date published: 7:29 am, October 20th, 2015 - 182 comments
Obesity is a difficult topic to write about, but with the release of new government policy yesterday it is very much in the news. Unfortunately, unsurprisingly, National have chosen to tinker with the consequences of obesity without addressing the causes.
Cancer patients and punitive policies
Written By: - Date published: 10:45 am, October 14th, 2015 - 73 comments
We need a welfare system that acknowledges the realities of cancer and other major medical conditions. That isn’t “special treatment”, it is basic human decency.
Medicinal cannabis
Written By: - Date published: 4:05 pm, October 12th, 2015 - 50 comments
Helen Kelly calls for the government “to get real about medicinal cannabis”. Seriously – what are we waiting for?
Diesel Bomb
Written By: - Date published: 11:53 am, October 1st, 2015 - 37 comments
Last Friday I wrote a post on Volkwagen gaming NOx emissions. This is a follow up.
NOx-ious shit all around.
Written By: - Date published: 7:49 am, September 25th, 2015 - 109 comments
Been trying to get my head around the implications of Volkswagen’s rigged diesel performance tests. Predictably, and unlike most stories covering this, I couldn’t give a rat’s arse for the financial woes the company might be facing.
A schools league table that we need
Written By: - Date published: 11:09 am, September 4th, 2015 - 15 comments
The Nats have created the (spurious) data for school “league tables” so that parents can be fully informed and make choices, so they tell us. But it seems that parents don’t deserve to be fully informed about the dangerous physical health of schools. That would be just too inconvenient.
TPP and the Pharmac reality
Written By: - Date published: 11:37 am, August 18th, 2015 - 34 comments
Key glibly says that the government will meet increased costs for medicine under the TPPP, but the reality for Pharmac is that its budget is already squeezed. If the TPP goes ahead Key’s promise will quickly be “forgotten”.
Let’s Lynch the Landlord
Written By: - Date published: 9:45 am, August 3rd, 2015 - 53 comments
As The Standard said at the time, the Government’s decision to destroy Relationships Aotearoa could be a colossal stuff up. And this morning we learn that a Canterbury landlord has allowed access to the sensitive files left behind when RA closed. Anne Tolley must act or Anne Tolley must go.
Then they came for the Health Boards
Written By: - Date published: 8:26 am, July 27th, 2015 - 79 comments
It appears that the Government has a radical proposal to undermine democratic participation in our Health Boards. Although the Minister claims not to know about it.
Gutting Southern health care is wrong
Written By: - Date published: 8:29 am, July 17th, 2015 - 75 comments
“Southern DHB commissioner called in to cut costs gets pay increase – to $1400 a day” – but that’s not the interesting bit…
A win on rental standards
Written By: - Date published: 12:56 pm, July 9th, 2015 - 105 comments
This is a good example of a policy win from opposition. More please!
Christchurch needs blankets
Written By: - Date published: 11:51 am, July 8th, 2015 - 96 comments
A Christchurch blanket bank has run out of blankets, in this the “seventh year of the brighter future”…
Another disease of poverty making a comeback
Written By: - Date published: 9:18 am, June 30th, 2015 - 139 comments
Add another disease of poverty to the list of those that are making a comeback in NZ.
Sacrificing mental health to dragons
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, June 26th, 2015 - 44 comments
The Labour Party has had a sneak peek at the process our government is using to pick “providers” for its mercenary social impact bonds scheme, and it’s like something off television.
Southern DHB sacked
Written By: - Date published: 12:36 pm, June 17th, 2015 - 53 comments
Southern DHB sacked – scapegoats for systematic underfunding of the health sector.
Costly government
Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, June 14th, 2015 - 43 comments
This is the true irony of National governments. Their entire platform is one of “fiscal responsibility” and “good economic management” yet time and time again they spend money the way I did when I was a teenager: false economies and short-term wish fulfilment.
The Responsibilities of Government
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, June 14th, 2015 - 45 comments
The death of Emma-Lita Bourne is not just a personal tragedy for the family: it is an event that should make New Zealand angry with the powerful people in our society who control the purse strings. They are responsible for condemning thousands of children to life-threatening conditions. And they are doing it in our name!
Heartless government
Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, June 13th, 2015 - 123 comments
A few stories of recent weeks which show exactly what kind of government we have.
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