Patient Advocacy NZ

04/11/2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/518850/at-least-85-000-people-each-year-turned-away-from-seeing-specialists-some-dying-as-result?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ZOP1rhrgfT5jEpz3fr6tn0b3fUu1C0pIEGLJ9NJwJf573H1lyfwHmJjM_aem_TUqLWYl9X-Y4jXFgAJ3Epg

One general practitioner said they'd managed a heart patient "into the grave" because she could not get the care she needed.

18/07/2024

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350342932/frontline-hospital-roles-going-unfilled-amid-hiring-freeze-despite-health-nz?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3vdTK0LG5r5UH_krZUgo4CaR8qMIxZUfxP4ZXW43hGFtf-BQdV97_NqT4_aem_voTja612bZ-M8_d7B0X_9w

Clinical recruitment has all but ground to a halt doctors say, with even the straightforward replacement of a nurse taking weeks longer than normal.

13/07/2024

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/lower-hutt-clinic-with-just-one-gp-insists-it-can-meet-patients-needs/UAMHDVI5ORASZDKQ4W2UYS7IOQ/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nzh_fb&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1e52hcTPmgUnpjLTqBMpFzjopjJRXbs7S3CFV7sM0Lpdjh3dA71wk8Aj8_aem_38oQW3Qesnu_BMIxqn-AyA =1720824243

Funded via capitation funding and ACC claims and co-payments from patients. Most of the consults are virtual. How does that actually work properly??
Payment for enrolled patients is controlled by the PHO mentioned in the article.
Green Cross run and staff the clinic.
Previous articles reference unsafe staffing and mass resignations.
Power and greed by corporations put before the actual frontline delivery of health services to vulnerable patients.
Shut it down until it meets the requirements that will be set by the MOH.
Check out the PHO board. All have a responsibility to adhere to the rules. Each one paid.
An abysmal failure in the delivery of healthcare that was supposed to create equity for all enrolled patients.
Capitation funding is funding for each enrolled patient at this clinic. This is funding given to the clinic even if the patient never attends as a patient. Work that out.

Health authorities are not ruling out cancelling funding for a clinic with 9000 patients.

13/07/2024

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/12-07-2024/why-so-many-nurses-move-to-new-zealand-but-dont-plan-to-stick-around?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0qikPMPJbeMPZWnEY4L31kA73wePx8ncbWBCEv7rETAF2czZ73VO4mgto_aem_va2PHwaaN6arFXi1RxVDNw

Aotearoa is often just one stop on a pathway to somewhere that pays better.

13/07/2024

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/07/08/one-womans-decade-of-over-300-ect-treatments-she-didnt-need/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR19zRtCwe16HHeiaPD207VVM8a0BjKpQfjLuOim5ERdejMgddkDR-TM-ng_aem_hdCY8PAMkQ1ZJqAjyew0Tg

Kerry Hodgson blames the 307 electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) shocks she had over 10 years to treat severe depression for wiping out nearly two decades of memories.

08/07/2024

More health professionals will leave to ensure that they can at least enjoy their lives.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Qxye6QiHiXRuSxkQ/?mibextid=WC7FNe

The stress of being a doctor is so bad 'nobody wants to do it' Jeff Kai Fong says.

07/07/2024

Best interview that I have listened to for a while. Labour govt and division tactics that would never work for a small country.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/hipCpFyM1dJTsxqt/?mibextid=09Vj1W&startTimeMs=387000

03/07/2024

https://www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2024/july/letters?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR26pfY4lXgv2RxEF2QXjppVQIykX8mR7rRNejt8Xg5fpVFjFCjB0bCJ_D0_aem_oFXcPXHmuuA6lDA-EMxhOQ

Should we now discuss possible COVID-19 vaccine negative effectiveness?
Commendations are due to AJGP and Professor Robert Tindle for their recent article published in the April 2024 issue, including the bold statement: ‘Because COVID-19 vaccines were approved without long-term safety data and might cause immune dysfunction, it is perhaps premature to assume that past SARS-CoV-2 infection is the sole common factor in long COVID’.1 The possibility that long COVID could be related to the vaccines is important, but the focus here is on the notion that the vaccines could cause some sort of immunosuppression, especially, as noted by Professor Tindle, since the spike protein ‘exhibits pathogenic characteristics’ – to say nothing of the ‘class switch to IgG4 antibodies’, which Professor Tindle thinks could lead to autoimmunity and cancer. I have speculated as much, noticing many data sets indicating that not only does COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness appear to decline very rapidly (varyingly for infections, hospitalisations and even deaths), it can reach zero (no effectiveness), and beyond

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02/07/2024

https://www.wcdhb.health.nz/media-release/buller-healths-acute-care-service-to-operate-under-alternate-plans-in-response-to-limited-staffing/

Buller Health will be introducing alternate care plans to its acute care service to accommodate limited staffing. From 8:30am through to 6pm on Friday (21 June), the Acute Stabilisation Unit (ASU) will be open for acute presentations but closed for admissions. Face-to-face nurse appointments and GP....