HeyJaredIan Powell
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Ian Powell – New Zealand loses two-thirds of recruited overseas trained medical specialists within five years! (opens the original)
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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 medical workforce (42.4% according to Medical Council data) which is one of the highest prop
Ian Powell – Privatising first specialist assessments (opens the original)
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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 surgical) to private hospitals. This outsourcing is at a greater cost to the health syste
Ian Powell – Health New Zealand and its workforce are not ‘on the same page’ (opens the original)
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If I was to attempt to summarise in a simple soundbite the precarious and deteriorating position of Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system, I may well say that the leadership of Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora and its workforce (including but in no way restricted to its doctors and nurses) are not on the same page. HNZ-TWO needs to be on the same page as its workforce If I was to be obscure I may well opine that there is too much Health New Zealand and not enough Te Whatu Ora. But more on that l
Ian Powell – Why Jews shouldn’t be blamed for Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing in Gaza (opens the original)
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In my various previous posts critical of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, including through genocide, wherever possible I have avoided using the word ‘Jews’. I deliberately use ‘Israelis’, ‘Israel’ or ‘Zionism’ instead. My rationale is that because Jews as people, either as an ethnic group or religious faith (or both), do not deserve to be tarnished by such a genocidal brush. While genocide defines Israel it does not define Jews (historically or recently) neither ethnically nor religio
Ian Powell – Health Minister drops Medical Council in a right political pickle (opens the original)
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‘In a pickle’ is an idiom meaning to be in a difficult, tricky, or troublesome situation; one where it is hard to know what to do or how to escape. It can include everyday things such as losing house or car keys, missing a bus, or forgetting one’s wallet. In a pickle reportedly first used by William Shakespeare in his play, The Tempest William Shakespeare is thought to be the first to use the idiom “in a pickle” in The Tempest. Although, in this case, the pickle was in the narrower context of be
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