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@crucial said in NZ Politics:
@kirwan said in NZ Politics:
@canefan Of course a socialist governement would love central control
Long overdue, although the rationalisation of different IT, management, and staff is going to be a long drawn out process. A lot of people will lose their jobs, and people in cities will be fine, I suspect rural towns will still struggle to get quality healthcare.
Unless some of the wasted money is re-directed to setting up better provincial facilities.
That's very optimistic. Look at the Auckland super city, they just find a new way to waste money. Labour's record of actually implementing policy has been disastrous.
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@kirwan said in NZ Politics:
@crucial said in NZ Politics:
@kirwan said in NZ Politics:
@canefan Of course a socialist governement would love central control
Long overdue, although the rationalisation of different IT, management, and staff is going to be a long drawn out process. A lot of people will lose their jobs, and people in cities will be fine, I suspect rural towns will still struggle to get quality healthcare.
Unless some of the wasted money is re-directed to setting up better provincial facilities.
That's very optimistic. Look at the Auckland super city, they just find a new way to waste money. Labour's record of actually implementing policy has been disastrous.
I can't imagine this will be implemented quickly either. Cue lots of consultants at exorbitant rates
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@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
the three Akl DHB's and to an extent Northland have tried to work together on waiting lists and purchasing. Without a lot of success.
Do they operate the same IT systems? If not, and with each DHB having their own booking/procurement departments and no access to see each other's information I would imagine it is pretty difficult
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@canefan There are a multitude of different Patient Management Systems across the country. One of the ideas of having a cradle to grave National Health Identifier was so that you could have a national database but the reality is patients have multiple files even within the same DHB let alone across them.
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@mokey said in NZ Politics:
Maybe they'll even improve women's health with some of the saved money. I'm imagining a utopia where smear results don't have to be FAXED cos no central system that all docs can access.
For a country as small as NZ, that's criminal.
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@kirwan said in NZ Politics:
@mokey said in NZ Politics:
Maybe they'll even improve women's health with some of the saved money. I'm imagining a utopia where smear results don't have to be FAXED cos no central system that all docs can access.
For a country as small as NZ, that's criminal.
FFS how hard can it be? We have a population less than Melbourne
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@paekakboyz said in NZ Politics:
@canefan spread out a tad more tho
Makes no difference in the electronic age. In fact, because we are spread out, a centralised IT system is a bigger advantage. And for a such a small population, implementing one is trivial.
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@kirwan oops, totally missed that we'd zoned in on the IT aspect of this. I totally agree with you all, no excuse not to have a centralised system for our health provision.
The Fern 101, I ain't got time to read shit. This is the way.
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@paekakboyz said in NZ Politics:
@kirwan oops, totally missed that we'd zoned in on the IT aspect of this. I totally agree with you all, no excuse not to have a centralised system for our health provision.
The Fern 101, I ain't got time to read shit. This is the way.
This is the way.
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@paekakboyz said in NZ Politics:
@kirwan oops, totally missed that we'd zoned in on the IT aspect of this. I totally agree with you all, no excuse not to have a centralised system for our health provision.
The Fern 101, I ain't got time to read shit. This is the way.
details schmetails
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@pakman said in NZ Politics:
Explaining the decision, the country’s foreign minister, Nanaia Mahuta, says her country is “uncomfortable” with expanding the alliance’s role, and that New Zealand should instead pursue its own bilateral relationship with Beijing. At the heart of it is a desire to forge closer trade ties with China, which presently accounts for 29 per cent of New Zealand exports.
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@pakman Yeah except Mahuta spoke yesterday saying we should develop alternative trading partners to China and seek to become less reliant on them.
Torygraph opinion piece is incredibly shonky.
Also ignores the fact that the Nats cosied up to China just as much. It's bloody difficult tightrope for NZ to walk. With the possible exception of Canada all our 5 eyes 'partners' have shafted us in the past and would again in a heartbeat.
The geopolitical reality is the 21st century will be dominated by China. Better to accept that and try to mitigate the impact than rail against it. Reminds me of Akl Uni Students Association passing motions roundly condemning Israel ...
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