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New Zealand Loses Two-Thirds Of Recruited Overseas Trained Medical Specialists Within Five Years! | Scoop News (opens the original)
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Book Reviews | Gordon Campbell | Scoop News | Wellington Scoop | Community Scoop | Search What a headline: ‘Two thirds of overseas-trained medical specialists leave again in less than five years’. It is hard to beat it for dramatic effect especially as it is right on the mark. Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system depends on international medical graduates (IMGs) who are doctors who have obtained their first medical degree overseas. In fact, IMGs make up nearly half of New Zealand’s registered me
'Ripe Fruit Territory' And New Zealand's Vote In UN General Assembly On US Blockade Of Cuba | Scoop News (opens the original)
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Book Reviews | Gordon Campbell | Scoop News | Wellington Scoop | Community Scoop | Search On 27 October there will be the annual consideration of the United States’ blockade (economic warfare is a better description) at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The next day the Assembly will consider a resolution under the following official title: Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. In the past Aotearoa
Public Hospitals Were Already Overflowing Before Winter Flu Outbreak | Scoop News (opens the original)
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Book Reviews | Gordon Campbell | Scoop News | Wellington Scoop | Community Scoop | Search With all the extensive media coverage one could not be blamed for attributing the current winter flu outbreak, which started to peak in late August, to the disastrous situation facing our overstretched and overflowing public hospitals. There is no doubt that this year’s winter flu outbreak has led to a big increase in severe respiratory illness rates which, in turn, has impacted on hospital overflowing. It
Privatising First Specialist Assessments | Scoop News (opens the original)
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Book Reviews | Gordon Campbell | Scoop News | Wellington Scoop | Community Scoop | Search Privatisation is continuing to expand in Aotearoa New Zealand’s public hospitals, both in volume and scope. Owing to the Government’s reluctance to use this ‘p’ word, it instead calls it ‘outsourcing’. However, few in the health system and public are fooled. Privatisation is most associated with the Government’s plans to significantly increase outsourcing of planned (elective, non-acute) procedures (usually
Removing The ‘Veil Of Good Intentions’: A Lesson For New Zealand Foreign Policy | Scoop News (opens the original)
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Book Reviews | Gordon Campbell | Scoop News | Wellington Scoop | Community Scoop | Search The ‘veil of good intentions’ is an interesting phrase that does not have a specific meaning. Rather it is more metaphorical or symbolic associated with modesty, purity and mystery. It is a phrase that particularly struck me when reading an absorbing paywalled article by Ben Rhodes and published in the New York Review of Books (26 February): Removing the veil of good intentions. As the New Zealand governmen
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