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NEW guidance on managing patients with respiratory symptoms will “severely limit” the number of people who can be seen face to face by GPs at a…
NEW guidance on managing patients with respiratory symptoms will “severely limit” the number of people who can be seen face to face by GPs at a…
LIKE Professor Sir John Curtice, I am very frustrated with the cumbersome bureaucracy surrounding the current Covid vaccine programme ("Anger over Covid helpline after 14-week vaccine wait", The Herald May 18). What is the point in having an advice helpline that won’t help? I was informed that there was no trace of my details anywhere. The operator refused to give me a number so that I could contact NHS Tayside – “I might give you the wrong number." And finally: “The 12-week number is only a guide." After lots of back and forth I finally got my second dose today; week 14. But they...
Who guards the guards? Experts call for oversight of New Zealand’s terror laws Tess McClure in Christchurch © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Kai Schwörer/Getty Images In the early hours of an October morning in 2007, teams of armed police stormed Rūātoki, a lush green valley in the North Island of New Zealand. Equipped with new anti-terrorism powers, they stopped school buses, set up roadblocks, raided houses, arrested 18 people across the country, and detained many more in their homes for hours. “I was only 7 at the time,” Kunere Timoti, one of the children ...
Oversight office urged after moves to expand counter-terrorism laws Ben Strang © RNZ/Vinay Ranchhod The government is being asked to consider appointing an independent person to review how counter-terrorism laws are operated in New Zealand. © Provided by Radio New Zealand No caption An office looking at the implementation of security policy is important as New Zealand becomes more securitised, a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland says. Photo: RNZ/Vinay Ranchhod Justice Minister Kris Faafoi introduced the Counter-Terorrism Legislation Bill on Tuesday, which s...