“I just want to acknowledge the staff.” “Change isn’t always exciting, some people will be anxious and some people will be concerned. We just need to be really mindful of different people’s reactions. We’ll have our various employment support groups available to people as and when they need it.” Under the new system, there will be four regional divisions, but it is unclear what that means, and Black addressed this uncertainty. She said there was “a lot more detail to come before we can have any certainty around what it actually looks like”. “As a board, we have a D-date . but in the interim, we’ve got another 14 months. We can keep on doing what we do really well, supporting Lexie and her team and ensuring that we still provide a service and support to the people.”
Minister of Health Andrew Little reveals a major reform of the health system which will abolish all of the DHBs nationwide.
Concern the top of the south will be overlooked by a new health authority has punctuated reaction to the surprise decision to drop all district health boards. The Government will abolish the 20 district health boards and create a single health organisation, in a sweeping plan to centralise New Zealand’s fragmented healthcare system and end the “postcode lottery” of care. Health Minister Andrew Little on Wednesday announced the Government would create a national health organisation, akin to the United Kingdom’s NHS, and also a Māori Health Authority with spending power, and a new Public Health Authority to centralise public health work.
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“It’s what we’d hoped to see for the rest of the country. “However, there is still a lot of uncertainty around actual dates for roll-out by individual DHBs. By now we certainly would have expected that all staff at rest homes around the country to have their first vaccination, or at the very least have confirmed dates.”
Andrea Staufer gives Cyril Martin, a resident of Stillwater Lifecare & Village in Richmond, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Wallace said he was not sure what was causing the delays, but “with the trans-Tasman bubble and quarantine-free travel upon us increasing the risk profile for our vulnerable people, we need to see an emphasis on fast and safe vaccination”.
“I just got to the point where I thought I don’t have an excuse,” Stocker said. He said his only remaining apprehensions about vaccination were the possible judgement from medical staff and the cost. In 2017, he rolled up his sleeve for a series of vaccines which were free and the nurses “didn t make an issue of it”, he said. “Those apprehensions were very unfounded and that was the last barrier to get through.” Growing up, Stocker said his mum “didn t like the overmedicalisation of everything” and felt her children’s immune systems were healthy enough. During university, he said a flatmate told it to him straight about immunisation.