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Senior Doctors To Hold Stopwork Meetings

Stopworks will be held at every DHB starting on August 2nd. ASMS has been in talks with DHBs since February to negotiate a new multi-employer collective agreement or MECA, but the DHBs have failed to put an acceptable offer on the table. “We are asking for a very modest pay rise to simply reflect cost of living increases and inflation, but the DHBs continue to come back with a zero percent increase,” says ASMS Executive Director Sarah Dalton. “We are very aware of the Government’s public sector pay restraint advice, but every worker has the right to at least keep up with inflation and not see their

Senior doctors to hold stopwork meetings over pay talks

Photo: 123rf Their union, the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, said they were asking for a moderate pay rise but the DHBs were offering no pay increase. It is asking members to stop work for up to two hours next month to discuss their next steps. A spokesperson for district health boards said they were factoring the government s expectation about employment relations and pay into their negotiations. ASMS executive director Sarah Dalton said in a statement specialists were fatigued and suffering high levels of burnout as they juggled entrenched staffing shortages, overflowing hospitals and overstretched services. They had also absorbed additional pressures due to the Covid-19 backlog.

Patience Running Thin On Mental Health Upgrades

Thursday, 8 July 2021, 12:55 pm The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists Toi Mata Hauora says patients and staff will be disappointed that an inquiry into progress on planned new mental health services has been knocked off the political agenda. Government MPs on Parliament’s health select committee have blocked a National Party proposal for an inquiry into the delay in providing 15 new mental health inpatient facilities which would aim to accelerate progress and assess design standards. In its recent report, What Price Mental Health? ASMS found that DHBs frequently exceed 100% occupancy levels for mental health inpatient beds, and the number of inpatient beds per population has

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