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OPINION: Roger Partridge says solving crises in education, health, housing will take time.

The health minister looks increasingly like someone who has realised they have been handed a lighted stick of dynamite rather than a baton, writes Orna McGinn

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The recent announcement of members for the two new health boards - Health New Zealand and Māori Health Authority Board - has generated much thought within the nursing community.

Ongoing pressures on the countrys hospital emergency departments and persistent problems with access to primary health care highlight the need for major reform of the health system, Health Minister Andrew Little says. The Ministry of Healths briefing to Andrew Little this week concluded that the countrys health system was overstretched, underfunded and inequitable. Photo: Stuff / Ross Giblin His comments come after the College of Emergency Nurses NZ said that staffing shortages, overcrowding ...

Ross Giblin/Stuff The Ministry of Health’s briefing to Andrew Little as the incoming minister was released on Tuesday and made for stark reading and highlighted the fact the country’s health system was overstretched, underfunded and inequitable. Health Minister Andrew Little says ongoing pressures on the country’s hospital emergency departments and persistent problems with access to primary health care highlight the need for major reform of the health system. His comments come after the ...

Rates the same, but eliminate the deductions for the rich. nancy pelosi making her position on that very, very clear. take a listen to this. >> is that something that is acceptable? >> no. >> nott all, no way? >> no, the president made it very clear in his campaign that there is not enough, there are not enough resources -- what you just described as a formula and a blueprint for hammering our future. >> you know, dana, if she is hardening her stance here as we watch the rhetoric, does it matter...

Huge tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires and then come down heavy on people who already are hurting. did the democrats go forward with that agenda? of course they did not. i have to tell you though that in the democratic caucus of which im a member there is more and more discussion about a sur tax on millionaires. i have no argument with what youre saying. >> it seems to me that this momentary crisis -- lets hope its momentary -- will be overcome but then we face raising the debt limit, ...