Seminar: Commercial detriments of health (can we respond and how?)
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Seminar: Commercial detriments of health (can we respond and how?) Commercial determinants arise from the economic frameworks, forces and values that underlie and permeate all aspects of society. They are of fundamental importance for health status, inequalities, trends, and outcomes. While relevant to both communicable […]
Read More →Acute demand driving deficits
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists Pressuring District Health Boards to reduce their deficits will exacerbate the critical shortfall being experienced in public hospitals dealing with significant increased acute demand, says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS). “Health Minister David Clark acknowledges DHBs are under pressure but says he […]
Read More →Southern DHB: 24/7 maternity facilities in rural regions ‘not possible’
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Southern DHB: 24/7 maternity facilities in rural regions ‘not possible’ Southern DHB CEO Chris Fleming joins Checkpoint live to discuss concerns about a lack of maternity facilities in the Southland and Otago regions. This follows several incidents in recent months, including a Lumsden mother who […]
Read More →The business of health care depends on exploiting doctors and nurses
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: The business of health care depends on exploiting doctors and nurses You are at your daughter’s recital and you get a call that your elderlypatient’s son needs to talk to you urgently. A colleague has a family emergency and the hospital needs you to work a […]
Read More →Govt’s $2b for mental health: will it work?
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Govt’s $2b for mental health: will it work? The centrepiece of last week’s budget was $1.9 billion to help the one in five New Zealanders who experience mental illness or significant mental distress. New Zealand has persistently high suicide rates – particularly for young people […]
Read More →Let’s talk about the art of living and dying well
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Let’s talk about the art of living and dying well It isn’t until my patient dies that I calculate we have known each other for 10 years, the time it took for her recurrent cancer to extinguish her life. I use the word “extinguish” deliberately, […]
Read More →First baby born at Lumsden maternal and child hub
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: First baby born at Lumsden maternal and child hub The fact that a second baby has been born in northern Southland while the mother was on her way to a primary birthing unit is proof that the Lumsden Maternity Centre should have stayed open, Clutha-Southland […]
Read More →Health budget barely maintains the status quo
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists “On initial analysis of the increase for health in today’s Budget is virtually enough to maintain the current level of service overall but district health board funding falls short by around $300 million,” says Lyndon Keene, Director of Policy and Research for the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS). […]
Read More →World Medical Association welcomes decision on burnout
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: World Medical Association welcomes decision on burnout The World Medical Association has given a warm welcome to the decision by the World Health Assembly to classify work related burnout as a problem that influences health status and to include it in the new version of […]
Read More →Government policy makes people ill – and the NHS pays the price
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Government policy makes people ill – and the NHS pays the price NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has been remarkably successful in prising more money for the health service out of the government, but short-term ministerial thinking about the service and its resources has […]
Read More →Government’s mental health response a positive step forward; now for the detail
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Government’s mental health response a positive step forward; now for the detail “The Government’s response to its mental health review appears to be a significant step in the right direction but we now need the detail to see how much of a difference it will […]
Read More →Syphilis outbreak shows decision to cut sexual health doctors clearly short-sighted
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Syphilis outbreak shows decision to cut sexual health doctors clearly short-sighted The struggle to contain Auckland’s syphilis outbreak is hardly surprising given the flawed decision by the city’s health bosses several years ago to cut the number of senior sexual health doctors in the region, […]
Read More →Health $3.2 billion under-funded since 2009/10
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists A pre-budget analysis conducted by the Council of Trade Unions and Association of Salaried Medical Specialists has highlighted a vast spending shortfall in health since 2009/2010. For the Health Vote to regain the spending power of the 2009/10 Health Vote and pay for the initiatives and additional costs announced […]
Read More →‘We have pretty much nothing’ – Te Anau maternity services
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: ‘We have pretty much nothing’ – Te Anau maternity services Te Anau residents say promised maternity services haven’t been delivered, leaving mothers and midwives in a precarious situation. The Southern District Health Board announced a maternal and child hub for the town after downgrading the […]
Read More →Doctor unions embrace common approach to issues arising from safer rostering efforts
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists The two unions representing doctors in public hospitals have agreed on a common approach to addressing any problems arising from efforts to secure safer staffing rosters for resident (junior) doctors. The senior doctors’ union, the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS), and the union representing junior doctors, the New […]
Read More →Bitter dispute could have unintended consequences for senior medical workforce
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists A winner-takes-all approach in the acrimonious junior doctor dispute could have the unintended effect of making hospital specialists think twice about district health boards as employers of choice, says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS). He backed comments by Middlemore Hospital intensive care […]
Read More →Five-day junior doctors’ strike begins
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Five-day junior doctors’ strike begins Thousands of junior doctors are walking off the job from 8am, for their longest strike yet. It’s the fifth strike by the members of the Resident Doctors Association and this time will run for five days in all regions except […]
Read More →Removal of pathologists from long-term skills shortage list unwise
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists The senior doctors’ union says its concerns about the immigration status of pathologists have been acknowledged but the Government’s response falls well short of what is needed. Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS), says Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway has written to acknowledge the […]
Read More →Health Minister warns Waikato DHB over growing deficit
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Health Minister warns Waikato DHB over growing deficit The Health Minister is poised to sack the entire Waikato District Health Board and replace it with a commissioner. David Clark has told the embattled DHB he’s seriously dissatisfied with its performance and increasingly worried about its […]
Read More →Hospital specialists congratulate midwives on accord – and ask: what about us?
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists “Hospital midwives are to be congratulated for successfully negotiating a safer staffing accord – and now it’s the turn of hospital specialists to have a similar agreement with the Government to address the serious workforce issues they’re dealing with,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried […]
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