Kate Hawkesby: Shocker of a week for the government
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Not a great week for the government this week.
The vaccination rollout’s been called a shambles, with potentially worse to come.
Minister Chris Hipkins is saying he s nervous about how it’s going to go, supply is an issue, lots of excuses of course, but the upshot is, even what they’re currently rolling out is a mess.
Just ask the 81 year old who was turned away, having booked an appointment and waited half an hour only to be told, no jab today sorry love.
She was one of many in the same boat.
Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) executive director Sarah Dalton.
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The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) union represents senior doctors who work in the country s hospitals.
Executive director Sarah Dalton said Counties Manukau DHB needed to receive more funding to address its surgery backlog, and there also needed to be the people available to carry out the operations. There s a limit to how many weekends doctors, anaesthetists and nurses are going to be willing to work in the face of being abandoned by the government, she said. There s been a real loss of goodwill [due to the pay freeze] and I don t think it s just doctors that are affected, a lot of nurses will be voting with their feet on this one.