19-06-2025, 04:05 PM
Another move towards privatising health.
"Transitional access' comes into effect on July 1st & will mean that private patients already receiving treatment , or about to start it, with a newly funded medicine won't have to move to publicly funded for 12 months.
The association of salaried medical specialists which represents 6,500 senior hospitals & dentists said its members working in oncology & haemotology had 'significant concenrs' that this would widen inequities for patients.'
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5646...rn-doctors
"Transitional access' comes into effect on July 1st & will mean that private patients already receiving treatment , or about to start it, with a newly funded medicine won't have to move to publicly funded for 12 months.
The association of salaried medical specialists which represents 6,500 senior hospitals & dentists said its members working in oncology & haemotology had 'significant concenrs' that this would widen inequities for patients.'
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5646...rn-doctors
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)