Judith Collins says heads should roll over sanitised mental health report.
Labour members have blocked a select committee inquiry into a series of drastic edits that were made to a routine mental health report.
Stuff revealed in April the bureaucratic battle behind the release of the 2018 and 2019 Office of the Director of Mental Health and Addiction Services report, which were finally released together in late March of 2021 – over a year behind the normal schedule. The reports had several data points stripped out for 2018 and 2019, including data on wait times, access to services, and suicides. Correspondence from within the Ministry of Health showed a pitched battle between those who wanted the report to feature the data it usually did and those who wanted things stripped out.
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Media release from the New Zealand Aged Care Association
Wednesday 5 May 2021, 08:42 AM
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At today’s parliamentary Health Select Committee, the New Zealand Aged Care Association (NZACA) called on government to urgently fund pay parity for registered nurses in the sector with their counterparts in public hospitals.
Presenting a petition of 15,000 signatures backing ‘Fair Pay for Aged Care Nurses’, Simon Wallace, Chief Executive of the NZACA said the Government’s health reforms had failed to address the issue of pay parity for the healthcare workforce, which was raised in the Health and Disability System Review.
“While we are pleased to see aged care recognised in the Government’s reforms as a core part of the primary and community care system, the critical issue of pay disparity has been ignored,” says Mr Wallace.
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“The Government’s decision to ban BZP was expected. What is surprising is the Government’s failure to protect the public by using the remedy to hand,” the Social Tonics Association of New Zealand said today. More
A free, publicly available testing programme for syphilis needs to be made available in South Auckland to help tackle the epidemic, an expert says.
Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall says she s aware frontline specialists are struggling to react to South Auckland s syphilis epidemic.
Photo: LAWRENCE SMITH / STUFF / LDR
Dr Massimo Giola is a member of the New Zealand Sexual Health Society s executive and a practising physician, and said many people were still being charged a consultation fee when tested for the disease by their GP. Particularly in areas like South Auckland, why don t we look at some form of subsidy? he said. We should be making the services as accessible as possible like we did with testing for Covid-19.