Short sighted govt

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yes Isaw first hand the deplorable state of hospital  chronic staff shortage    , waited in emergency room after being delivered by amblance   after  a   stroke for 14 hours before  being admitted   5 hours  for first exam nby nurse   second tests    4hours laterthen doc exam  3 hours later & finally a bed2  hours later    .  Labour poured mills$  up    into    splitting the    system7     employing more management    instead of  at the coalface for     more     staff  & beds

How long does it take to train nurses? Doctors? How are the current bunch going to improve the numbers of these people? Steal them from elsewhere ?(good luck with that when you're competing with richer countries.) If the current idiots in government start now with incentive schemes for people to go into the medical professions, we will see trained nurses available in 4 or 5 years, and doctors in just under 10 years. Reckon they will do anything?

My sister is a nurse of >45 years experience working in orthopaedics. She is sick and tired of trying to bring recent immigrant nurses with poor English language skills up to speed. Overworked, underpaid and now expected to put enormous effort into addressing the shortfall in the NZ health system. Unless this latest numpty government puts some real effort into sorting this shit out our health systems will be fucked inside 3 years (assuming the coalition doesn't fly to bits before then).