Ben Gray
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- Aug 20, 2026
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- Jul 12, 2026
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When an overloaded ED gets it wrong, who should be accountable? (opens the original)
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At this time of year, crowded hospital emergency departments are a familiar sight around New Zealand. It’s also a symptom of a health system under intense pressure. For patients, it means long waiting times to see a doctor. But for clinicians balancing workforce shortages with rising demand, it can mean making increasingly difficult decisions in far from ideal circumstances. Such pressures, which have prompted the New Zealand Nurses Organisation to campaign for enforceable safe staffing levels,
Cultural safety in healthcare is not ‘ideological’ – it is saving lives (opens the original)
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Introduced under urgency this month, the government’s latest proposed law change would increase the health minister’s powers to interfere in the work of medical registration authorities. The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Amendment Bill aims to “align health workforce regulation with patient needs […] and government priorities”. This follows Health Minister Simeon Brown’s recent decision to replace the leadership of the Medical Council because he objected to the attention the council
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