Govt changes to health system

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Good job  thetime & money wasted on making the maori  health  authority  could have been spent at the coal face  .The  health system has become bloated as labour solution was to employ more  non clinical  staff  . Isaw the result first hand in Nov waiting  14 hours after  a stroke  in a  wheelchair in A&E waiting room    u ntil a  bed became available.  Even took  5 hours for first  assessment  so short of staff .on the  front line

Where will these "front line staff" come from?

My sister is a nurse with 45+years experience and a nursing degree. She works in orthopaedics and with a skill set that rivals some of the specialists she 'assists' in terms of hands on care she has over the past few years increasingly needed to add upskilling immigrant nursing staff in what should be basic skills (injury diagnosis, appropriate patient care and applying casts). Further adding to her additional workload is the deficient English language skills of many of these recent immigrants with misunderstandings and patient communication issues presenting real risks of inappropriate treatments being carried out.

For a senior nurse this time consuming and frustrating situation is on top of an overwhelming patient load, sometimes nonsensical technological 'improvements', juggling schedules around non-shows and patients delayed by traffic issues and ambiguity of patient identification caused by gender neutral terminology among other shortsighted improvements to her work environment.

My point is that simply importing additional health workers comes with a whole new set of problems (and potential risks) for an already deficient hospital system.