NZ everything crisis. Police, hospitals etc is understaffed. Water pipes, sewage, roads, ferries that haven’t been maintained. Raising council rates with 30% and charging civilians RUC is not realistic, considering the fact literally everything is expensive. Do they want the entire population to leave?
@_.Marz._ Yup you right but why is nobody talking about the state of health in these communities. People eat to much ULTRA PROCESSED FOODS, SMOKE, DRINK ALCOHOL then full the clinics and hospitals. Imagine what the doctors think.
@@senseisaitama8684 I understand what you're saying. It's a vicious cycle that ultimately goes back to the cost of living. There's no way we should be paying $5 for a cucumber or $10 for a 500ml bottle of olive oil. Healthy food options bought in bulk are not easily accessible costwise for most of these families who, for the most part, consist of 10+ people per household. Mix poor diet with poor decisions and yes, you'll get a walking time bomb.
My wife is a qualified Dr from South Africa, with private and government experience (including primary care) but working as a receptionist at a school because her qualifications and experience isn’t recognized here. Lots of (costly) hurdles to get qualified in the kiwi healthcare system as a foreigner and on top of that, she has to redo her internship when she is eligible. We hear and see there’s a shortage-the system however seems to tell us we’re surplus and unwanted. We love it here, such a beautiful country with amazing people but the healthcare system here is backwards.
Yup. , same as me. I was working IT for 15: years and even excel on their educational system for this qualifications as Top Scholar. Leave the industry to. Another for a bigger pay and free accomodation for. my family.
Same situation with my mum who came here as a trained GP from Romania. The crisis is fabricated because GPs don't actually want more GPs to come in and steal their patients and money. They want to maintain the monopoly.
@MrBrandomized was hoping to see a comment like this . Have stopped 95 percent of my sugar intake and stopped bread and pastas etc . Mainly natural food and feel better then ever . Been a month and dropped 13 kg
Tell that to labour they created the mess nz is in . Wasting tax payers money on there stupid pet projects like bicycle footpaths.crazy green party fruit loop ideas labour kowtowed to
Yeah my dad died because he couldn't get a GP visit in a small town, turns out he had lung cancer and by the time it was bad enough to go to the hospital he was already too far gone
Not a surprise. The industry knew 25 years ago that 2026 would be crunch time. But did we train more doctors to replace the ones who are retiring? No we did not. Too late now. It takes years to train a doctor. And just BTW, there are no penniless doctors and especially not in Otara. Look into how the funding is spent. That lot in Tamaki have been rorting the system for decades.
@@adastrajane we know two surgeons, one ED and one neurosurgeon. Both got declined a visa because they didn’t meet NZ criteria. One is the youngest Ed doc in the world and they other trains NZ surgeons. Go figure 😔
we had doctors and nurses before this government took over....they all left to go to Aussie to get better pay when National bull💩 about paying healthcare more money
Good for those doctors who aren't penniless, lol, bc why on earth would we want doctors who are working for peanuts? It's not a zero-sum issue, Doctors don't need to suffer financially, for good and equitable health care in Aotoearoa. The Gov needs to invest well above 4% into the health system.
This was planned & intentional It's to usher in a new A I based personalized medicine system along with the other expanding techno to tal ita rian su rve illa nce capitalism
Yes we are like America, low quality low nutritional food, excess sugar, alcohol in the daily diet of many people, it's not the governments problem, take some accountability for your actions, I realize not every health issue is self-inflicted .
The government did do something. They gave us a tax cut and froze nurse hiring. They also built some roads and stuff. They did do stuff. Just the wrong stuff.
Protest? Kiwis are the most apathetic bunch ever. The ones who are outraged at the situation have all left to Aussie etc. This is a result of too much low skilled immigration which is not paying their way for the infrastructure they use. The frog has been heating in the pot for decades without any protests.
I am not certain but I believe it is dependent on the employer deciding if they will hire health practitioners who are not vaccinated, not the over all law stopping them from being employed
This is happening all over Australia as well, western countries are going backwards in terms of living standards. Let's keep fighting with each, be you left or right. While the rich get richer and the rest of us get poorer
@@kimkay2196and eight years of John Key had no effect on services? Both of the main political parties are responsible for the general decline in NZ services over a long period of time. No point playing the tribal blame game here.
My brother has traveled alot to 3rd world countries and since he came home 2 years ago after covid he cannot belive how different and backwards New Zealand has become. He has stated many times that NZ is more 3rd world than some countries he has visited. Born and breed here and he now hates being home, no longer proud to be a NZer
Yep, in July this year, I got all my specialist and GP appointments and services done in Peru before returning home from my holiday to avoid the wait time. I had to pay but, was worth it to get services done on the spot.
@TC8787-yq7og he's been alot of Southeast Asia, like Vietnam, lived in Cambodia for 2 yrs, Egypt, Jordan, Greece, Italy, Fiji, Rarotonga, Tonga, Australia, Hawaii can't remember them all. But he said NZ is worse than some of those poor countries after listening to what he has told me of his travels I well believe him. So disappointed 😞 in how backwards NZ has become.
@@kimharris9226 oh yeah I’m not calling him a liar I was just intrigued, it’s interesting to see it from a different perspective. The UK is a lot worse than NZ, but NZ could definitely do with some improvements. I found Cambodia and Vietnam far worse than NZ, but I suppose it depends when he was there and where about he traveled to.
@TC8787-yq7og he was back in Cambodia in March and going again in October so quite often but has many places he still wants to see. He loves traveling. I know u weren't calling him a liar, that didn't even cross my mind 😀
The government should go back to the basic needs only, instead of all this BS people want addressed. Everyone has a cause and demand government to fund. It’s ridiculous.
This is what has happened over decades: 1. Grow the population at all costs with the highest immigration rates in the world. No need for doctors, fake students working as Uber drivers will do. 2. Make housing and tax as expensive as possible and salaries as low as possible for any new or overseas doctors who are considering a career in NZ. 3. Oh gee there aren't enough doctors. So surprising! 4. Overwork the doctors so they all leave NZ or retire.
Even worse, they don't allow the doctors living here to work. I met a German doctor living here in NZ who wasn't allowed to work here (even though Germany's medical schools are better than ours). The reason was because he refused the Covid vaccine, so the Labour govt wouldn't let him work. This is a problem we have in NZ; skilled doctors live here and they're unemployed because of the government's poor choices. There's no democracy here - if they let the people choose, I'd happily see an unvaccinated doctor. Those who don't want an unvaccinated doctor just wouldn't visit that doctor. Simple.
100% follow dr Eric Burg on youtube and i have gotten rid of 40kgs and completely changed my gut health which has fixed my mental issues, life changing. Will e so good to see RFK in charge of FDA in US and hopefully we will get trickle down effect of that!!!
💛☀️ May I suggest that you read labels on packaged food. If it contains vegetable and seed oils, (such as rice bran, canola, and sunflower) AVOID EATING!! The process to extract this oil uses solvents, which contribute to heart disease, neurological disease, and cancer. Where possible, use olive oil (which is technically a fruit) as this is extracted through the process of cold-pressing. I wish you well. 🌿 🕊️
Can only thank the individual politicians of various successive governments for short sightedness, diversion of funding & acting against the best interests & showing little duty of care toward their citizens while over investing in feelgood projects..
Im a 10yrs GP in a remote area in the Philippines.. it is disheartening to see that this is happening in NZ considering you are more prosperous than us.. now it makes me think of gping there to help out..
This makes me feel sick. As a nurse, this situation needs to get dealt with yesterday. I have also been on the other side, and as a patient I was terribly disappointed at the state of our health care system and access to treatment. I have been waiting currently 3 years to get a pain specialist appointment. I have still not received a clear diagnoses or explanation, after an MRI in Feb 2022 for a failed spinal fusion, and metal ware taken out, it picked up a condition that turns ligaments and tendon to bone, there are bone spurs through out my upper torso, my neck, upper spine, ribs, sternum, shoulders. I am in incredible pain and I am becoming more stiff and my spine is slowly crumbling. . I cannot get anyone to see me for this. People cannot live like this. I left the my nursing role in public system due to my feelings towards the lack of adequate patient care and went into the private sector. We work extremely hard, we work when you are in bed, when your on holiday , when your eating Xmas dinner with your family. We see these people incredibly sick and they are getting sicker. Our citizens deserve wellbeing. Wellbeing in our populations produces happier and more productive outcomes. It’s simple and the government are doing nothing. We get paid peanuts, my husband gets more money per hour than myself and he is a drain layer. I have a degree and 30 years experience, I am responsible for peoples lives on a daily basis. My son who is 23 almost gets the same pay as I do. This is not attracting nurses or doctors into the profession. The work is hard and the pay low. I’m just so happy that I do not do My job for money I do it because I want to make a difference, come on NZ government this needs to improve how.
It’s so sad as a professional immigrant in NZ seeing how when we immigrated in 2001 how different this country was compared to now. How far has this amazing country fallen. My wife is a HOD in an affluent school. We are in the highest income bracket. 4 weeks ago I had to rush to Botany Eastcare A&E services. I only got attended after 2 hours and my entire trestment took more than 4 hours to sort out. I went to the A&E at around 5 and only got home at 10:00pm. This was an emergency because I had an accident, my tractor loader fell on my knee. This clinic is in an affluent suburb, Botany. It is a high end facility. There was only 1 doctor and about 5 nurses and at 6:00pm there was a notice of 4 hour wait on average. If this supposedly affluent clinic is so bad then the entire country must be in chronic shortage of GP. I would assume we do not have a single clinic in NZ that is “Satisfactory”.
Nothing to do with the decline of health care, it's been declining for a couple of decades. Really, the tribal blame game is not going to change anything.
As a New Zealander, this is why I haven't been to see a doctor for the past 10 years. I'm not registered with a medical centre despite being born and raised here. People who are thinking of moving to NZ need to realise we pay a lot of tax and get very little in return. And the government wonders why we choose not to have kids...
Society is getting sicker and the "journalists" go and make videos complaining that the ambulance at the bottom of the hill is full and broken. Good grief, talk about missing the problem and focusing on the distractions.
We tried protesting our last govt for mandating healthcare workers out of jobs and were called conspiracy theorists. The blame sits squarely with Jabcinda and co
We just got a new government, not sure what you think will happen when you get rid of it? Likely scenario would be that you get the old government back, which got us here 🫠
I have been repeatedly told that there is no more healthcare for me either 😳 but I refuse to accept that and ask for someone who is going to look after me - most people don’t realise they can do that. I have been living for 11 years now with a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis. I would have been dead three times over during that time, if I had listened to the public doctors who have told me there wouldn’t be any more treatment for me.
@@cherylcarr5690 i had been living overseas for 20 and when i cane back home the urd told me i had to prove to them that i had been overseas...and not knowing the nz ird i told them im innocent until they prove me guilty.....i was put on their black list and hv been there for 22 yrs.....if the ird tell me no....i listen
As i have just recently joined the over 50s club, this is truly alarming. I see comment's about change your diet, exercise etc, but getting older inevitably leads to more health problems. My GP has recently had over 4 Doctors leave our practice(i not sure where the doctors are leaving for). Now we only have one GP and at least a 4 week wait for an appointment.
Yes my son couldn't get an appointment with his doc too busy so he went to the after hours in normal times. It has gone up to one hundred dollars it used to be forty dollars and this is with a community services card. It's crazy if you can't afford and go to ed hospital you can wait for sixteen hours and then get told go to your own gp it has all got worse under national 😢😢😢
I know my daughters daycare worker had a mini stroke and had to wait for 16hrs in the Palmerston north waiting room, so it seems to line up W what you're saying.
he needed to INSIST ON BEING TRIAGED AT THE GP CLINIC FIRST AND FOREMOST AND NOT LEAVE THE GP SURGERY UNTIL THEY SAW HIM, THEY ALL TRIAGE AND IF DEEMED URGENT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SEEN AT HIS GP, Emergency departments are built FOR EMERGENCIES that is why they make people wait because they are run of their feet with real emergencies only to tell people to go back to their GP, not an emergency? don't go to ED. make the GP see you
also... the cost of living crisis, lack of access to health food for many, and the questions on why the "health" industry is growing, needs to be addressed.
It took me 3 weeks to see my doctor after having a very major health event. I ended up going to the hospital to be triaged instead. They are also understaffed and need more funding so going to the hospital feels bad. Considering our taxes here in NZ our government should be doing better for our health system if you ask me
Austerity policies are the problem. Best to leave NZ, because it's going to be like this for sometime. My two sons have left NZ for Aussie and don't intend returning. Very depressing to see the lack of opportunities here, so I understand there decisions to immigrate.
My dr’s clinic is also After Hours and I had to go in on a Saturday, they open at 8am, I got there at 8.20am and they were already at a six hour wait AND $75 charge, and I’m a registered patient there!
That is the government's fault for making vaccine mandatory. We all shldve had the right to choose and not forced cos didn't want to loose jobs, now we are paying for it. Blame Jacinda
Underfund, understaff. Drive the primary care system to failure. Part of the govt plan to privatise primary sectors due to their deliberate actions to degrade these services.
this is true, Luxon is probably making decisions for public healthcare to fail then sell out NZ to the dystopian America. private healthcare when people get desperate.
You're dead right. They did it years ago with Ministry of Works. Ran it into the ground then went private with public works. Downer makes big profits and tax credits and distributes the proceeds to share holders. How many working class Kiwis can afford to play with shares?
Problem is under Adern & Labour the exit started with hundreds of doctors, specialists , nurses & many other qualified professionals leaving NZ due to the Maorification of the Health Care service & in particular throughout NZ Hospitals & forced Maori indoctrination of staff on top of the abuse & violence within NZ hospitals to staff by a certain ethnicity.
💛☀️ May I suggest that you read labels on packaged food. If it contains vegetable and seed oils, (such as rice bran, canola, and sunflower) AVOID EATING!! The process to extract this oil uses solvents, which contribute to heart disease, neurological disease, and cancer. Where possible, use olive oil (which is technically a fruit) as this is extracted through the process of cold-pressing. I wish you well. 🌿 🕊️
We need a system like Aus where if you earn over a certain amount, say $100k then you either get have to get health insurance or you have to pay a Medicare surcharge… which is usually about the same as health insurance for a year anyway. Takes strain off the public system for low wage earners and makes insurance cheaper as well.
Im a New Zealand and I demand my taxes be spent on better health and education. Lets make the next election less about tax cuts, penny pinching and dividing the country into demographics and focus on how we are going to pump some more funding into things that matter.
The system is overrun with immigrants. We should raise taxes on immigrants to 59% why should born kiwis pay gor foriegners to take over. Just like all the west. Let it collapse otherwise. I feel the same as thes retireing doctors.
Otara has a good team there working with what they have. I've only been there twice as we usually run between every other local doctor in the area trying to find the clinic with the shortest wait time ❤
If healthier food options were affordable & homes weren’t mouldy & cold, the doctors wouldn’t be inundated with people waiting. Make it make sense Luxon 🙄
So sad. Booking online for enrolled patients is now prepaid. Going on a 3 week waiting list is prepaid, so booking first and paying closer to the appointment date is gone. It's getting too hard to live.
Some of these patients would not need so much medical intervention if they got help for their metabolic diseases. Being large is not normal but seems to be a widely accepted size in south Auckland pacific island communities. I am shocked at how old that 44 year old lady looks. I thought she was closer to 60. And the 28 year looks 44! To my fellow pacific island brothers and sisters, please cut the sugar, cut the kfc - fast food, cut the smokes and for goodness sakes please cut down on your portion sizes. A lot of your illnesses are preventable.
It's not just pasifika and Maori though. I'm in Porirua and have to drive 20 minutes to a GP clinic that would even accept me on their books. I can't get into the ones here. When my car breaks down I can't even access health care cause there's no public transport to where my GP is.
Crazy, the 44 year old lady is only 2 years older than me and looks 20 years older than me. It is important that we take care of our health Māori and Pasifika people. Eat properly, exercise and take care of yourself. That is the only thing we can rely on - certainly not the underfunded health system.
Hitting 50 in Jan and she looks like my mother. Matter if fact I joined a dating site back in 2017, had a couple of dates with ladies in their 40s and it looked a little ridiculous. Not sure what it is but yeah we are aging fast.
This has been a growing issue for decades. Don't wash the issue with your political tribalism - it does a disservice to those who have died because of this.
I stopped going to the drs a few years ago due to appointments always being a few days wait, I suffer from extreme pains, chest/heart issues and now pressure building in my head. If I feel like I'm dying or the symptoms get too bad then I'll go to the hospital.
must be the cut backs ie, no funding, no frontline staff. NO, not labour , the coalition of the take from the poor and give to the RICH. DO your children go to school in nz!!
@@PuhiPureBloOdYT Yes, and that was their downfall. Too bad, because in all other respects life would have been better under Labour for those who aren't wealthy.
I understand we need to invest heavly in to medical care but a little bit self responsibility to look after your body helps too,Basic exercise,healthy food choices...
Exactly my experience over my 12months living in NZ last year for work. I am an RN for many years, but I could not even get to register with a GP where I lived. So tragic to see how NZ health system is in crisis..yet we continue to see research being funded and published arguing for a counter effect and all to no avail..like what that GP was saying that unless they start to invest in primary healthcare the crisis will continue until it expllodes 😮😮😮
Double and triple check everything your doctor advises you to do. In NZ, a few years back in the 80s, the doctors at the local practice were frustratingly incompetent. Even the head doctor misdiagnosed my baby daughter with "ringwom" on her scalp after barely looking at her, even after I insisted she was born with it. A few months later, we came back home to Australia where it was dealt with immediately. It was a tumour of low grade malignancy! We were shocked and angry. ' Another doctor from the same practice in NZ told me it would be better if I drank alcohol because I went to her looking for help with a migraine headache. I told her, "It is not a hangover, I don't drink!" Some people say don't use doctor google, but in these cases, we might have done just as well, if we'd had access to the internet at that time, which of course, we didn't. I found our local pharmacist superior with advice and able to give us something that could help a little while we waited. Obviously, you make your own choices and deal with the responsibilities of doing so.
Wow I remember seeing that exact clinic a couple years ago when I needed to do an xray screening. It was the exact same picture as it is now, lots of people waiting outside in a long queue
There is something these people have in common, something that is typical in places like Otara because I dont see this in the majority of clinics around NZ. Maybe we need to identify what that is and address it. Creating more clinics and capacity feels like treating the symptoms and not the cause. Maybe more clinics in the short term but long term we need to get better educated about health and personal responsibility imo.
The government has underfunded primary care for the last 20 years and capped the number of new GPs. The funding model is outdated. GP clinics are closing because they can’t stay afloat. The government tells them to charge patients more. Patients complain about the prices and wait times and view the GPs as the bad guys. They’re just trying to stay alive in a broken system, successive years of government neglect. The GP burnout rate is 70%! Most of the ones I know do an incredible job despite the challenges they face. Many of the public don’t help - people who say they just push medicines and get paid by big pharma - absolute bollocks. We need to support our GPs better.
These are my doctors too but I don’t go because of the long wait time unless I’m really sick a az most times end up being sent to straight to hospital.
GP’s in NZ are overpriced. If your on a benefit, you get more help than if your employed. $85-$120 just to see a doctor to get some antibiotics. Disgusting
I worked from the age of 16 to 62,raised a family,they are all sucessful, scraped through, my first pay packet was 18 dollars a week. Ive paid TAX all my life, I resigned from a full time job because a cure for my medical condition had been found, much to my dismay, things were worse. I've seen NO PROOF of that, just a whole lot of awful stuff said to Me and blaming Me for my sickness. This is in the hospital, I was offered trials, but NOTHING has transpired. 5 years later, I felt forced to walk away, and have No health care what so ever. I was told about a Drug for God knows what, and the GOVENMENT was going to pay for it. BUT!! I've already paid for it through the Tax that I've paid through my working life and all the other taxes, especially GST for food. The drug that can help Me isn't the one they offered, it's on the list, but probably won't be used for at least another 5 years as Pharmac probably won't release it. I will be Dead. Don't FORGET! this Government Renaged on their election promise about Cancer Drugs. It's was the patients who RAISED that up out of the Corruption, but the LIES still rule. Morally Discraceful. May Mr Luxton could donate his tax free sales of his houses to a Cancer Patient.❤ to you all.
Amen to all of this! Both my daughter and I have had multiple problems with hospitals kicking us out without dealing with the issues. I have taken a friend into the Ōtara clinic - the waiting time was just awful considering she was in so much pain 😢. And Eastcare isn’t any better. And the biggest complaint when you do end up at the emergency department is that you and most of the people there are just trying to skip going to the doctors - as if waiting 11 hours to see a doctor in ED when you’re sick, is if that is what people would prefer to do 😳
ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE! THE clue is in the name...EMERGENCY Dept..GPs MUST TRIAGE YOU IF YOU TELL THEM ITS URGENT AND THEY ARE CONVINCE IT IS ALSO. MAKE YOUR GPS TRIAGE YOU AND DO NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER! leave the over run, exhausted EMERGENCY DEPT for emergencies!!
Bike lanes promote exercise also bikers do not smoke, eat healthy and are fit. Not sitting around in cars eating takeaways and filling themselves to the brim with fizzy drinks, let’s be frank
@@2003sharans like I said cycling promotes a healthy body and diet. It’s one of the preventative measures against illnesses & pollution. Meanwhile my beloved lower income houselholds are lined up at the local Chinese takeaways filling themselves to the brim untill they can no longer walk, then a few decades later at the local gp crying in pain
@@Freepalestine8931 , so we Shud stop building medical health care and only build bike lanes is the solution what kind of argument is that , as I said my problem is bike lanes doesn't come under my priorities and that's it
@@2003sharans it’s all about balance and equity. No use catering to only sick people and people abusing drugs and diets. We have to cater also to people who make an effort to change their lifestyle like gymnasiums, walkways, parks etc no point abusing alcohol and cigarettes and than expecting to have a gp every 100 metres
We have the worst rates of medical malpractice above Australia United States UK. My doctor teachers new doctors at the University. He still has managed to cause permanent life long injury's to me. I've been in hospital eight times he is being investigated along with the pharmacy by health and disability commission. They are a waste of space the out come is usually an apology letter shame we all can't do that for a parking ticket. I would have to say the doctors that we have in New Zealand are the left over scraps of the so called medical professional. They get to injury and harm with cover from Acc you as a patient cannot sue. I would have to say unless it is life threatening stay away. New Zealand governments have a reputation of abuse and neglect of it's citizens. With media like this one failure to run story's about this a national discrace. The human rights commissioner just hides in her office doing nothing. Wasting tax payers money! She knows what going on and does nothing to protect the vunrable.
100% - A pregnant friend was not correctly diagnosed for pre-eclampsia and went on to have a seizure. The person taking the blood pressure was not even a nurse just a dumb midwife from a polytechnic. A neighbour of ours had their kidney nicked by a scalpel during an operation. I think the staff try their best but they're overworked and often working on cases above their pay grade rather than referring patients to specialists. NZ is just a joke.
Government wants to locate a new medical school in the Waikato but some experts in the health sector are saying it's a waste of tax payers money and govt resources ..... So the issue is not enough doctors to go around surely having this school will be of benefit. .....
@@chelseafisher6881 Are you referring to the super Corporate rich , without them you wouldn't have big companies who employs hundreds of people. ....giving them jobs and a stable economy , it works both ways ....
@@spider-man910 You dont need the company to employ the people. The government could employ those people, and is the largest employer in the country (something around 20%). Companies are for profit while the government is for people (usually). Profit is the stuff taken after everything else is accounted for (wages, raw material inputs) and is paid out in dividens to investors, who are millionairs and billionairs. Profit is the excess of production and should go to the people who are employed and their communties, not to a select few people. If companies stopped existing for profit the world would be much richer, we could invest all that profit into research which is actually helpful (and not research which aims to make people money), we could invest that profit into communities and people, we could invest it into health. The mega wealthy don't acutally invest, if they did invest they wouldn't be mega wealthy. They just sit on their mound of gold like a dragon and burn anyone who dares to take even a piece. Not to mention the mega wealthy don't pay their fair share of tax, instead middle income people end up carrying the burden. Furthremore 7 billion is estemated to be lost to white collar crime each year. We have serious problems in NZ and the country has been wrongly assuming the megawealthy are somehow good and will fix it; they never have and they never will.
Liaison Manager? The money should have been spent on a doctor - even if only part time. This shows how broken the system is. Wasting money to apologise for the system being broken is only making it worse.
Didn’t you watch the video? There is a shortage of GPs, you can’t pay people that don’t exist. Medical centres need back-office staff as well, otherwise the Drs spend their time doing administrative work.
this comment wont be too popular but why not address the problem from both ends... yep fix it from a govt/council perspective but take accountability at the individual level by reducing the risk of medical need - exercise and a healthy diet : a few not so thin folks in that line!. its referenced as medical 3.0 : proactively manage yourself better. folks know whats good and bad for them these days but typically do stuff all about it.
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GPs voted for this because they wanted to be paid more and work less. Stop the freeze on nurses and train more nurses to be nurse practitioners.
NZ everything crisis. Police, hospitals etc is understaffed. Water pipes, sewage, roads, ferries that haven’t been maintained. Raising council rates with 30% and charging civilians RUC is not realistic, considering the fact literally everything is expensive. Do they want the entire population to leave?
leave to where, its expence everywhere?
This is a result of high immigration and the country not having the infrastructure or resources to look after the influx.
@_.Marz._ Yup you right but why is nobody talking about the state of health in these communities. People eat to much ULTRA PROCESSED FOODS, SMOKE, DRINK ALCOHOL then full the clinics and hospitals. Imagine what the doctors think.
Immigration in the last 200 years has ruined New Zealand, there should be a tax on everyone that arrived after 1835
@@senseisaitama8684 I understand what you're saying. It's a vicious cycle that ultimately goes back to the cost of living. There's no way we should be paying $5 for a cucumber or $10 for a 500ml bottle of olive oil. Healthy food options bought in bulk are not easily accessible costwise for most of these families who, for the most part, consist of 10+ people per household.
Mix poor diet with poor decisions and yes, you'll get a walking time bomb.
My wife is a qualified Dr from South Africa, with private and government experience (including primary care) but working as a receptionist at a school because her qualifications and experience isn’t recognized here. Lots of (costly) hurdles to get qualified in the kiwi healthcare system as a foreigner and on top of that, she has to redo her internship when she is eligible. We hear and see there’s a shortage-the system however seems to tell us we’re surplus and unwanted. We love it here, such a beautiful country with amazing people but the healthcare system here is backwards.
I completely agree with you
Yup. , same as me. I was working IT for 15: years and even excel on their educational system for this qualifications as Top Scholar. Leave the industry to. Another for a bigger pay and free accomodation for. my family.
Partly to blame is the people who came into NZ with fake phd's, I guess they are on high alert because of it, who knows.
This urks me the most. Truth be known we have lots of doctors that could work tomorrow but got stupid rules won't allow you to.
Same situation with my mum who came here as a trained GP from Romania. The crisis is fabricated because GPs don't actually want more GPs to come in and steal their patients and money. They want to maintain the monopoly.
You have to wait at least 2 weeks to be seen by a GP. This is not right
what GP, i could see my GP today if i really needed too
@@MrBrandomized Lucky you, not everyone has that luxury
Weeks? Months is much more likely.
Where I live it's a month to get in.
@@Poppa_Capinyoaz i live down the rd from that clinic and i can book and go to my GP 10 mins away same day
Government spends so much money on silly things. Health should be priority!!!
food is medicine
@@MrBrandomizedExactly. That's what I've been saying, everybody blaming everything and everyone but themselves.
@@senseisaitama8684 yea if RFK actually gets in control of the FDA in US the whole world could change for the better hopefully!!!!
@MrBrandomized was hoping to see a comment like this . Have stopped 95 percent of my sugar intake and stopped bread and pastas etc . Mainly natural food and feel better then ever . Been a month and dropped 13 kg
Tell that to labour they created the mess nz is in . Wasting tax payers money on there stupid pet projects like bicycle footpaths.crazy green party fruit loop ideas labour kowtowed to
Yeah my dad died because he couldn't get a GP visit in a small town, turns out he had lung cancer and by the time it was bad enough to go to the hospital he was already too far gone
That is terrible to hear. Contact NZH or Stuff, we need these stories in the news to put pressure on those in charge.
Omg thats horrible. Sorry for your loss. This shouldn't happen...
That happens all the time in NZ. The really sad cases are when the people who die are kids or young adults.
Condolences bro
@@soundtravels4348 That's rotten. I'm so sorry.
$65 for a 15 min appointment and you have to wait a long time.
$65? Where? Shorecare? Last time I went it was $18.
mines around 30-40$, can be appointed in a day or two.
Welcome to NZ.
Yup! Agree! I had to pay $80 at White Cross for my husband to see the doctor for 15mins. Crazy times 😞
@@jandalgal white cross is not like anormal GP huge price
Not a surprise. The industry knew 25 years ago that 2026 would be crunch time. But did we train more doctors to replace the ones who are retiring? No we did not. Too late now. It takes years to train a doctor. And just BTW, there are no penniless doctors and especially not in Otara. Look into how the funding is spent. That lot in Tamaki have been rorting the system for decades.
@@adastrajane we know two surgeons, one ED and one neurosurgeon. Both got declined a visa because they didn’t meet NZ criteria. One is the youngest Ed doc in the world and they other trains NZ surgeons. Go figure 😔
we had doctors and nurses before this government took over....they all left to go to Aussie to get better pay when National bull💩 about paying healthcare more money
Good for those doctors who aren't penniless, lol, bc why on earth would we want doctors who are working for peanuts? It's not a zero-sum issue, Doctors don't need to suffer financially, for good and equitable health care in Aotoearoa. The Gov needs to invest well above 4% into the health system.
This was planned & intentional
It's to usher in a new A I based personalized medicine system along with the other expanding techno to tal ita rian su rve illa nce capitalism
Yes. Foresight 😂
This is totally wrong. Government needs to do something or a protest is going to happen. We are not like America
We are just like America, Australia and Canada the disgusting countries. This is what CAPITALISM brings and people who don't follow healthy diets.
Yes we are like America, low quality low nutritional food, excess sugar, alcohol in the daily diet of many people, it's not the governments problem, take some accountability for your actions, I realize not every health issue is self-inflicted .
American health system is way better than this socialist crap. Either go to America and experience it or stfu
The government did do something. They gave us a tax cut and froze nurse hiring.
They also built some roads and stuff.
They did do stuff. Just the wrong stuff.
Protest? Kiwis are the most apathetic bunch ever. The ones who are outraged at the situation have all left to Aussie etc. This is a result of too much low skilled immigration which is not paying their way for the infrastructure they use. The frog has been heating in the pot for decades without any protests.
thankyou very much for going in on your day off.. we need more people with your kindness
Very sad to see this happening in South Auckland NZ.
Question: are non vxxd Doctors and nurses still not allowed to work in our health care system???
Good question!
I am not certain but I believe it is dependent on the employer deciding if they will hire health practitioners who are not vaccinated, not the over all law stopping them from being employed
Many of them have left now, to other countries or other professions
Should've listened to us when we went to Wellington instead of mocking, ignoring and lumping us in with the trouble makers!
Nope you don't have to be vaccinated that was under labours watch like teachers now they don't need to be vaccinated to work
This is happening all over Australia as well, western countries are going backwards in terms of living standards. Let's keep fighting with each, be you left or right. While the rich get richer and the rest of us get poorer
NZ can no longer be considered first world. Except for the rich that is.
Thank useless labour party for that. Under labour rich got rich poor got poorer. They divided new Zealand
NZ has always been classed as a third world country. Read a book mate
P@@kimkay2196 what a load of bs
@@kimkay2196and eight years of John Key had no effect on services? Both of the main political parties are responsible for the general decline in NZ services over a long period of time. No point playing the tribal blame game here.
My brother has traveled alot to 3rd world countries and since he came home 2 years ago after covid he cannot belive how different and backwards New Zealand has become. He has stated many times that NZ is more 3rd world than some countries he has visited. Born and breed here and he now hates being home, no longer proud to be a NZer
Yep, in July this year, I got all my specialist and GP appointments and services done in Peru before returning home from my holiday to avoid the wait time. I had to pay but, was worth it to get services done on the spot.
which countries did he say were worse than NZ? I've lived all over the world, and NZ is second only to Aus
@TC8787-yq7og he's been alot of Southeast Asia, like Vietnam, lived in Cambodia for 2 yrs, Egypt, Jordan, Greece, Italy, Fiji, Rarotonga, Tonga, Australia, Hawaii can't remember them all. But he said NZ is worse than some of those poor countries after listening to what he has told me of his travels I well believe him. So disappointed 😞 in how backwards NZ has become.
@@kimharris9226 oh yeah I’m not calling him a liar I was just intrigued, it’s interesting to see it from a different perspective. The UK is a lot worse than NZ, but NZ could definitely do with some improvements. I found Cambodia and Vietnam far worse than NZ, but I suppose it depends when he was there and where about he traveled to.
@TC8787-yq7og he was back in Cambodia in March and going again in October so quite often but has many places he still wants to see. He loves traveling.
I know u weren't calling him a liar, that didn't even cross my mind 😀
All governments seem to have forgotten about basic needs
The government should go back to the basic needs only, instead of all this BS people want addressed. Everyone has a cause and demand government to fund. It’s ridiculous.
If doctors are leaving their high paying profession, what is happening to other work professions who don't make nearly as much? This is a bad sign
This is what has happened over decades:
1. Grow the population at all costs with the highest immigration rates in the world. No need for doctors, fake students working as Uber drivers will do.
2. Make housing and tax as expensive as possible and salaries as low as possible for any new or overseas doctors who are considering a career in NZ.
3. Oh gee there aren't enough doctors. So surprising!
4. Overwork the doctors so they all leave NZ or retire.
Even worse, they don't allow the doctors living here to work. I met a German doctor living here in NZ who wasn't allowed to work here (even though Germany's medical schools are better than ours). The reason was because he refused the Covid vaccine, so the Labour govt wouldn't let him work. This is a problem we have in NZ; skilled doctors live here and they're unemployed because of the government's poor choices. There's no democracy here - if they let the people choose, I'd happily see an unvaccinated doctor. Those who don't want an unvaccinated doctor just wouldn't visit that doctor. Simple.
thing is, even overseas doctors take a very long time to get a job, even when they prove they are qualified and do all the necessary exams and steps.
Why do they not address the elephant on the room! Address the cause and stop putting plasters on the results. Change your diet people.
100% follow dr Eric Burg on youtube and i have gotten rid of 40kgs and completely changed my gut health which has fixed my mental issues, life changing. Will e so good to see RFK in charge of FDA in US and hopefully we will get trickle down effect of that!!!
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@@MrBrandomizedkiaora, we are fans of the same people.
💛☀️ May I suggest that you read labels on packaged food. If it contains vegetable and seed oils, (such as rice bran, canola, and sunflower) AVOID EATING!! The process to extract this oil uses solvents, which contribute to heart disease, neurological disease, and cancer. Where possible, use olive oil (which is technically a fruit) as this is extracted through the process of cold-pressing. I wish you well. 🌿 🕊️
@sarahwalkerbeach6985 So true...I have to add to please cut out any sugar as diabetes is the cause of so many illnesses.
Can only thank the individual politicians of various successive governments for short sightedness, diversion of funding & acting against the best interests & showing little duty of care toward their citizens while over investing in feelgood projects..
Im a 10yrs GP in a remote area in the Philippines.. it is disheartening to see that this is happening in NZ considering you are more prosperous than us.. now it makes me think of gping there to help out..
That's very generous of you, but check these comments. Apparently coming from another country you are not allowed to work
@@Karen-ul9hd :) oh i see.. i hope your government can prioritize health asap.. thank you for your reply..
I am an Australian trained GP in Canberra. Soon I am moving to NZ to work as a GP as I love NZ with its all natural beauty! So see you soon guys
7 weeks to wait for a appointment just in Whangaeri, the system an Living expenses have gone out of control since Covid
😮your kidding me?! What the heck are you supposed to do?
This makes me feel sick. As a nurse, this situation needs to get dealt with yesterday. I have also been on the other side, and as a patient I was terribly disappointed at the state of our health care system and access to treatment. I have been waiting currently 3 years to get a pain specialist appointment. I have still not received a clear diagnoses or explanation, after an MRI in Feb 2022 for a failed spinal fusion, and metal ware taken out, it picked up a condition that turns ligaments and tendon to bone, there are bone spurs through out my upper torso, my neck, upper spine, ribs, sternum, shoulders. I am in incredible pain and I am becoming more stiff and my spine is slowly crumbling. . I cannot get anyone to see me for this. People cannot live like this. I left the my nursing role in public system due to my feelings towards the lack of adequate patient care and went into the private sector. We work extremely hard, we work when you are in bed, when your on holiday , when your eating Xmas dinner with your family. We see these people incredibly sick and they are getting sicker. Our citizens deserve wellbeing. Wellbeing in our populations produces happier and more productive outcomes. It’s simple and the government are doing nothing. We get paid peanuts, my husband gets more money per hour than myself and he is a drain layer. I have a degree and 30 years experience, I am responsible for peoples lives on a daily basis. My son who is 23 almost gets the same pay as I do. This is not attracting nurses or doctors into the profession. The work is hard and the pay low. I’m just so happy that I do not do
My job for money I do it because I want to make a difference, come on NZ government this needs to improve how.
thank you for all of your hard work aroha nui
It’s so sad as a professional immigrant in NZ seeing how when we immigrated in 2001 how different this country was compared to now. How far has this amazing country fallen. My wife is a HOD in an affluent school. We are in the highest income bracket. 4 weeks ago I had to rush to Botany Eastcare A&E services. I only got attended after 2 hours and my entire trestment took more than 4 hours to sort out. I went to the A&E at around 5 and only got home at 10:00pm. This was an emergency because I had an accident, my tractor loader fell on my knee. This clinic is in an affluent suburb, Botany. It is a high end facility. There was only 1 doctor and about 5 nurses and at 6:00pm there was a notice of 4 hour wait on average. If this supposedly affluent clinic is so bad then the entire country must be in chronic shortage of GP. I would assume we do not have a single clinic in NZ that is “Satisfactory”.
We're a half wit appendage to oz.
Why'd the previous government spend so much on a rebrand and not new hospitals?
Rhetoric, sophistry, marketing, theoretical ideas, talking/posturing/posing instead of doing, you know typical cooked pseudo academic leftist stuff
honestly that is a dumb statement, its not even a real question , get informed
@@thinking102 Project harder mouth breather
Well, that was obviously going to happen, when you sack all the unvaccinated staff during covid.... But we can't talk about that, can we???
Nothing to do with the decline of health care, it's been declining for a couple of decades. Really, the tribal blame game is not going to change anything.
Politicians are the problem.
They need to be held accountable.
NOPE USELESS POLICIES ARE THE PROBLEM AND UNDER FUNDING ON WHATS IMPORTANT
Absolutely 💯 per cent.. politicians are a very big problem..
Held accountable, sacked then replaced
Whole communities literally waiting in the cold
Very important reporting, thank you
This is the curse of the "Free Healthcare" we brag about. Nothing in life is free, we are just at the point where we are paying for it.
too simplistic...
As a New Zealander, this is why I haven't been to see a doctor for the past 10 years. I'm not registered with a medical centre despite being born and raised here. People who are thinking of moving to NZ need to realise we pay a lot of tax and get very little in return. And the government wonders why we choose not to have kids...
You should probably try get registered, hard to get a spot from what I understand.
Society is getting sicker and the "journalists" go and make videos complaining that the ambulance at the bottom of the hill is full and broken. Good grief, talk about missing the problem and focusing on the distractions.
What’s the problem then lad?
@@twosnakse see my post- the problem is hundreds of revoked practicing licences back in 2022 for not following the vaccination narrative
Because doctors and nurses are leaving for Australia 😢
This is the result of previous governments who have failed our system!
Current
@@kiwikiwi223 Health system settings haven't changed in the primary care settings under either that much. They're both at fault.
National*
Remember the mandates??
Protest I say remove the the prime minister of New Zealand the government has taken all of our rights away it’s time to protest around the country
We tried protesting our last govt for mandating healthcare workers out of jobs and were called conspiracy theorists. The blame sits squarely with Jabcinda and co
We just got a new government, not sure what you think will happen when you get rid of it?
Likely scenario would be that you get the old government back, which got us here 🫠
No different with this govt either .
only took 5 years to nz herald to figure it out . maybe if they werent so busy covid missinformating and u would have done ur job
Yes it's like this all over auckland. When you're sick you ring to make an appointment but can't see you for at least a week at minimum unreal!.
4 weeks to get a doctors appointment on the North Shore, no walk in over here except white cross which most people can't afford.
This is really heartbreaking. Shame on all of our successive governments. 👎
NZ is way behind many third world countries .. that’s just crazy 😮😮
And that's actually in a LOT of ways.
Oh well. Some so called third world countries like Thailand or Malaysia have got quote a good health care system
Let's not give up hope about New Zealand. Let us unite and pray for our nation. Kia Ora and God Bless New Zealand!
and the IRD told me after my heart operation..."No more heath care"
I have been repeatedly told that there is no more healthcare for me either 😳 but I refuse to accept that and ask for someone who is going to look after me - most people don’t realise they can do that. I have been living for 11 years now with a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis. I would have been dead three times over during that time, if I had listened to the public doctors who have told me there wouldn’t be any more treatment for me.
@@cherylcarr5690 i had been living overseas for 20 and when i cane back home the urd told me i had to prove to them that i had been overseas...and not knowing the nz ird i told them im innocent until they prove me guilty.....i was put on their black list and hv been there for 22 yrs.....if the ird tell me no....i listen
@@cherylcarr5690Any tip about fighting stage 4 cancer?
@@GoodmanWed zero sugar, including carbs. alkalise alkalise alkalise. Cellular oxygenation, vitamin C. Dr Barbara O'Neil protocols
As i have just recently joined the over 50s club, this is truly alarming. I see comment's about change your diet, exercise etc, but getting older inevitably leads to more health problems. My GP has recently had over 4 Doctors leave our practice(i not sure where the doctors are leaving for). Now we only have one GP and at least a 4 week wait for an appointment.
My fav gp in Albany went to Australia a few years ago.
Yes my son couldn't get an appointment with his doc too busy so he went to the after hours in normal times. It has gone up to one hundred dollars it used to be forty dollars and this is with a community services card. It's crazy if you can't afford and go to ed hospital you can wait for sixteen hours and then get told go to your own gp it has all got worse under national 😢😢😢
I know my daughters daycare worker had a mini stroke and had to wait for 16hrs in the Palmerston north waiting room, so it seems to line up W what you're saying.
he needed to INSIST ON BEING TRIAGED AT THE GP CLINIC FIRST AND FOREMOST AND NOT LEAVE THE GP SURGERY UNTIL THEY SAW HIM, THEY ALL TRIAGE AND IF DEEMED URGENT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SEEN AT HIS GP, Emergency departments are built FOR EMERGENCIES that is why they make people wait because they are run of their feet with real emergencies only to tell people to go back to their GP, not an emergency? don't go to ED. make the GP see you
The Govt is doing exactly what the Crown wants. Time for people to fight back, leave Govt jobs and go back to gardening and eating better.
Straight up
That's been like that for years even on browns road doctor my mum passed but she had to wait like that when suffering from cancer
It's not just the waiting, it is also the lack of concern for patients by doctors...not to mention those who are denied ACC.
also... the cost of living crisis, lack of access to health food for many, and the questions on why the "health" industry is growing, needs to be addressed.
It took me 3 weeks to see my doctor after having a very major health event. I ended up going to the hospital to be triaged instead. They are also understaffed and need more funding so going to the hospital feels bad. Considering our taxes here in NZ our government should be doing better for our health system if you ask me
IT Support Engineer here, been trying to find a full time job for almost an year. Not really sure what's happening here.
Austerity policies are the problem. Best to leave NZ, because it's going to be like this for sometime. My two sons have left NZ for Aussie and don't intend returning. Very depressing to see the lack of opportunities here, so I understand there decisions to immigrate.
My dr’s clinic is also After Hours and I had to go in on a Saturday, they open at 8am, I got there at 8.20am and they were already at a six hour wait AND $75 charge, and I’m a registered patient there!
So many GPs ended their medical careers in 2021 and thereafter rather than compromise their integrity ...
That is the government's fault for making vaccine mandatory. We all shldve had the right to choose and not forced cos didn't want to loose jobs, now we are paying for it. Blame Jacinda
Underfund, understaff. Drive the primary care system to failure. Part of the govt plan to privatise primary sectors due to their deliberate actions to degrade these services.
GPs are already mostly privately owned in NZ
this is true, Luxon is probably making decisions for public healthcare to fail then sell out NZ to the dystopian America. private healthcare when people get desperate.
You're dead right. They did it years ago with Ministry of Works. Ran it into the ground then went private with public works. Downer makes big profits and tax credits and distributes the proceeds to share holders. How many working class Kiwis can afford to play with shares?
Problem is under Adern & Labour the exit started with hundreds of doctors, specialists , nurses & many other qualified professionals leaving NZ due to the Maorification of the Health Care service & in particular throughout NZ Hospitals & forced Maori indoctrination of staff on top of the abuse & violence within NZ hospitals to staff by a certain ethnicity.
Still waiting for health department to say "healthy eating daily exercise will stop you going to the doctors"🫣🤷♂️
Exactly, quite simple
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We need a system like Aus where if you earn over a certain amount, say $100k then you either get have to get health insurance or you have to pay a Medicare surcharge… which is usually about the same as health insurance for a year anyway. Takes strain off the public system for low wage earners and makes insurance cheaper as well.
Im a New Zealand and I demand my taxes be spent on better health and education. Lets make the next election less about tax cuts, penny pinching and dividing the country into demographics and focus on how we are going to pump some more funding into things that matter.
The system is overrun with immigrants. We should raise taxes on immigrants to 59% why should born kiwis pay gor foriegners to take over. Just like all the west. Let it collapse otherwise. I feel the same as thes retireing doctors.
I only see this getting worse with the current government tbh. Nothing will change until its their friends n family waiting out in the cold.
Otara has a good team there working with what they have. I've only been there twice as we usually run between every other local doctor in the area trying to find the clinic with the shortest wait time ❤
this is just heart breaking to see. i hope the government can bring in some policies to alleviate this issue at some point.
😂😂😂😂oh the naivety . you do know that the govt IS BRINGING IN POLICIES and they have NOTHING TO DO WITH HELPING THS MESS!! nothing.
I am blow. Away to make an appointment for GP for my daughter is over 1month!!
Takes time to help the Patients? Doctors, Nurses are working hard, like they say? Look after yourselves. ❤
Bloody shocking it's the same in Napier
If healthier food options were affordable & homes weren’t mouldy & cold, the doctors wouldn’t be inundated with people waiting. Make it make sense Luxon 🙄
Fail the sick means a savings in pensions
So sad. Booking online for enrolled patients is now prepaid. Going on a 3 week waiting list is prepaid, so booking first and paying closer to the appointment date is gone. It's getting too hard to live.
Some of these patients would not need so much medical intervention if they got help for their metabolic diseases. Being large is not normal but seems to be a widely accepted size in south Auckland pacific island communities. I am shocked at how old that 44 year old lady looks. I thought she was closer to 60. And the 28 year looks 44! To my fellow pacific island brothers and sisters, please cut the sugar, cut the kfc - fast food, cut the smokes and for goodness sakes please cut down on your portion sizes. A lot of your illnesses are preventable.
Today I was among many persons waiting at Mt Roskil medical centre early morning in the cold .
This is important to address, cause this is a major issue arising. This happens with my GP in west
It's not just pasifika and Maori though. I'm in Porirua and have to drive 20 minutes to a GP clinic that would even accept me on their books. I can't get into the ones here. When my car breaks down I can't even access health care cause there's no public transport to where my GP is.
Uber
All these problems existed in the old government, it's interesting that it's actually getting some light of day now.
Crazy, the 44 year old lady is only 2 years older than me and looks 20 years older than me. It is important that we take care of our health Māori and Pasifika people. Eat properly, exercise and take care of yourself. That is the only thing we can rely on - certainly not the underfunded health system.
I thought the exact same thing
Hitting 50 in Jan and she looks like my mother. Matter if fact I joined a dating site back in 2017, had a couple of dates with ladies in their 40s and it looked a little ridiculous. Not sure what it is but yeah we are aging fast.
Just remember nz herald you facilitated this with your misinformation during the jasinta power trip
💯 miss information
B A S E D
This has been a growing issue for decades. Don't wash the issue with your political tribalism - it does a disservice to those who have died because of this.
@@tt_Kakashii3007 get into the real world fool
respect to this medical practice. sadly NZ is a cot case...
I stopped going to the drs a few years ago due to appointments always being a few days wait, I suffer from extreme pains, chest/heart issues and now pressure building in my head. If I feel like I'm dying or the symptoms get too bad then I'll go to the hospital.
must be the cut backs ie, no funding, no frontline staff. NO, not labour , the coalition of the take from the poor and give to the RICH. DO your children go to school in nz!!
Labour mandated healthcare workers out of jobs
@@PuhiPureBloOdYT Yes, and that was their downfall. Too bad, because in all other respects life would have been better under Labour for those who aren't wealthy.
I understand we need to invest heavly in to medical care but a little bit self responsibility to look after your body helps too,Basic exercise,healthy food choices...
Exactly my experience over my 12months living in NZ last year for work. I am an RN for many years, but I could not even get to register with a GP where I lived. So tragic to see how NZ health system is in crisis..yet we continue to see research being funded and published arguing for a counter effect and all to no avail..like what that GP was saying that unless they start to invest in primary healthcare the crisis will continue until it expllodes 😮😮😮
Double and triple check everything your doctor advises you to do. In NZ, a few years back in the 80s, the doctors at the local practice were frustratingly incompetent. Even the head doctor misdiagnosed my baby daughter with "ringwom" on her scalp after barely looking at her, even after I insisted she was born with it. A few months later, we came back home to Australia where it was dealt with immediately. It was a tumour of low grade malignancy! We were shocked and angry. '
Another doctor from the same practice in NZ told me it would be better if I drank alcohol because I went to her looking for help with a migraine headache. I told her, "It is not a hangover, I don't drink!"
Some people say don't use doctor google, but in these cases, we might have done just as well, if we'd had access to the internet at that time, which of course, we didn't.
I found our local pharmacist superior with advice and able to give us something that could help a little while we waited. Obviously, you make your own choices and deal with the responsibilities of doing so.
I'm sorry to see New Zealand going through this. It mirrors our problems here in Britain.
We've all been failed by generations of politicians.
Wow I remember seeing that exact clinic a couple years ago when I needed to do an xray screening. It was the exact same picture as it is now, lots of people waiting outside in a long queue
Those lines and wait time have been going on for years even before they moved into that new building
There is something these people have in common, something that is typical in places like Otara because I dont see this in the majority of clinics around NZ. Maybe we need to identify what that is and address it. Creating more clinics and capacity feels like treating the symptoms and not the cause. Maybe more clinics in the short term but long term we need to get better educated about health and personal responsibility imo.
I blame the National government
The government has underfunded primary care for the last 20 years and capped the number of new GPs. The funding model is outdated. GP clinics are closing because they can’t stay afloat. The government tells them to charge patients more.
Patients complain about the prices and wait times and view the GPs as the bad guys. They’re just trying to stay alive in a broken system, successive years of government neglect. The GP burnout rate is 70%! Most of the ones I know do an incredible job despite the challenges they face. Many of the public don’t help - people who say they just push medicines and get paid by big pharma - absolute bollocks. We need to support our GPs better.
These are my doctors too but I don’t go because of the long wait time unless I’m really sick a az most times end up being sent to straight to hospital.
Take care of yourself in the early stages of your life and you won’t need to see the doctor.
That is not True.
GP’s in NZ are overpriced. If your on a benefit, you get more help than if your employed. $85-$120 just to see a doctor to get some antibiotics. Disgusting
Politicians who do nothing need to hand over their ridiculous salaries to healthcare staff. Well worth tax payers money.
I worked from the age of 16 to 62,raised a family,they are all sucessful, scraped through, my first pay packet was 18 dollars a week. Ive paid TAX all my life, I resigned from a full time job because a cure for my medical condition had been found, much to my dismay, things were worse. I've seen NO PROOF of that, just a whole lot of awful stuff said to Me and blaming Me for my sickness. This is in the hospital, I was offered trials, but NOTHING has transpired. 5 years later, I felt forced to walk away, and have No health care what so ever. I was told about a Drug for God knows what, and the GOVENMENT was going to pay for it. BUT!! I've already paid for it through the Tax that I've paid through my working life and all the other taxes, especially GST for food. The drug that can help Me isn't the one they offered, it's on the list, but probably won't be used for at least another 5 years as Pharmac probably won't release it. I will be Dead. Don't FORGET! this Government Renaged on their election promise about Cancer Drugs. It's was the patients who RAISED that up out of the Corruption, but the LIES still rule. Morally Discraceful. May Mr Luxton could donate his tax free sales of his houses to a Cancer Patient.❤ to you all.
Amen to all of this! Both my daughter and I have had multiple problems with hospitals kicking us out without dealing with the issues.
I have taken a friend into the Ōtara clinic - the waiting time was just awful considering she was in so much pain 😢. And Eastcare isn’t any better.
And the biggest complaint when you do end up at the emergency department is that you and most of the people there are just trying to skip going to the doctors - as if waiting 11 hours to see a doctor in ED when you’re sick, is if that is what people would prefer to do 😳
ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE! THE clue is in the name...EMERGENCY Dept..GPs MUST TRIAGE YOU IF YOU TELL THEM ITS URGENT AND THEY ARE CONVINCE IT IS ALSO. MAKE YOUR GPS TRIAGE YOU AND DO NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER! leave the over run, exhausted EMERGENCY DEPT for emergencies!!
but landlords are suffering...no money for medical support
You can thank Labour for this mess.
Great work NZ Herald
Why is my tax used for bike lanes in Welly rather than getting more doctor or better pay/health-care... Really angry..
Bike lanes promote exercise also bikers do not smoke, eat healthy and are fit. Not sitting around in cars eating takeaways and filling themselves to the brim with fizzy drinks, let’s be frank
@@Freepalestine8931 bikers also need medical care bfr biking..
@@2003sharans like I said cycling promotes a healthy body and diet. It’s one of the preventative measures against illnesses & pollution. Meanwhile my beloved lower income houselholds are lined up at the local Chinese takeaways filling themselves to the brim untill they can no longer walk, then a few decades later at the local gp crying in pain
@@Freepalestine8931 , so we Shud stop building medical health care and only build bike lanes is the solution what kind of argument is that , as I said my problem is bike lanes doesn't come under my priorities and that's it
@@2003sharans it’s all about balance and equity. No use catering to only sick people and people abusing drugs and diets. We have to cater also to people who make an effort to change their lifestyle like gymnasiums, walkways, parks etc no point abusing alcohol and cigarettes and than expecting to have a gp every 100 metres
We have the worst rates of medical malpractice above Australia United States UK. My doctor teachers new doctors at the University. He still has managed to cause permanent life long injury's to me. I've been in hospital eight times he is being investigated along with the pharmacy by health and disability commission. They are a waste of space the out come is usually an apology letter shame we all can't do that for a parking ticket. I would have to say the doctors that we have in New Zealand are the left over scraps of the so called medical professional. They get to injury and harm with cover from Acc you as a patient cannot sue. I would have to say unless it is life threatening stay away. New Zealand governments have a reputation of abuse and neglect of it's citizens. With media like this one failure to run story's about this a national discrace. The human rights commissioner just hides in her office doing nothing. Wasting tax payers money! She knows what going on and does nothing to protect the vunrable.
100% - A pregnant friend was not correctly diagnosed for pre-eclampsia and went on to have a seizure. The person taking the blood pressure was not even a nurse just a dumb midwife from a polytechnic. A neighbour of ours had their kidney nicked by a scalpel during an operation. I think the staff try their best but they're overworked and often working on cases above their pay grade rather than referring patients to specialists. NZ is just a joke.
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Cured patients is customer lost
Why do we limit the training of doctors in NZ? Surely this is part of the reason for this result
Government wants to locate a new medical school in the Waikato but some experts in the health sector are saying it's a waste of tax payers money and govt resources ..... So the issue is not enough doctors to go around surely having this school will be of benefit. .....
Isn’t the issue that they’re not hiring, because the govt is cutting budgets on things that don’t benefit the super rich?
@@chelseafisher6881 Are you referring to the super Corporate rich , without them you wouldn't have big companies who employs hundreds of people. ....giving them jobs and a stable economy , it works both ways ....
@@spider-man910 You dont need the company to employ the people. The government could employ those people, and is the largest employer in the country (something around 20%). Companies are for profit while the government is for people (usually). Profit is the stuff taken after everything else is accounted for (wages, raw material inputs) and is paid out in dividens to investors, who are millionairs and billionairs. Profit is the excess of production and should go to the people who are employed and their communties, not to a select few people. If companies stopped existing for profit the world would be much richer, we could invest all that profit into research which is actually helpful (and not research which aims to make people money), we could invest that profit into communities and people, we could invest it into health. The mega wealthy don't acutally invest, if they did invest they wouldn't be mega wealthy. They just sit on their mound of gold like a dragon and burn anyone who dares to take even a piece. Not to mention the mega wealthy don't pay their fair share of tax, instead middle income people end up carrying the burden. Furthremore 7 billion is estemated to be lost to white collar crime each year. We have serious problems in NZ and the country has been wrongly assuming the megawealthy are somehow good and will fix it; they never have and they never will.
This is so sad especially here 😢
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The money should have been spent on a doctor - even if only part time. This shows how broken the system is. Wasting money to apologise for the system being broken is only making it worse.
Didn’t you watch the video? There is a shortage of GPs, you can’t pay people that don’t exist.
Medical centres need back-office staff as well, otherwise the Drs spend their time doing administrative work.
@@farrisbuellersweekoff Facepalm
this comment wont be too popular but why not address the problem from both ends... yep fix it from a govt/council perspective but take accountability at the individual level by reducing the risk of medical need - exercise and a healthy diet : a few not so thin folks in that line!. its referenced as medical 3.0 : proactively manage yourself better. folks know whats good and bad for them these days but typically do stuff all about it.
GPs voted for this because they wanted to be paid more and work less. Stop the freeze on nurses and train more nurses to be nurse practitioners.