Recent Posts Tagged With 'health'

• Cell towers keep appearing without consultation

  Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 20:50 in health, environment, consultation, cell tower, sue kedgely, environment & resource management

  Cell tower springs up in Christchurch Every week someone contacts me about an unwanted cell tower, mast or antennae, that are being erected near to where they live. Last week I got a call from a woman in Herne Bay, Auckland – who had discovered...

• What’s in a number?

  Posted on Saturday September 26th, 2009 at 16:00 in health, new zealand, green party, restructuring, pho, dhb, tony ryall, kevin hague, environment & resource management

  For those working in the health sector a general election tends to bring a frisson of apprehension: will the positive momentum built with the current structure be, as usual, swept away by the political wind of structural change? The Minister’s “r...

• Labtests problems no surprise

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 20:41 in health, new zealand, contracting, green party, dml, labtests, environment & resource management

  One of the issues dominating newspaper headlines over the past several weeks has been the performance of Labtests, the new provider of medical laboratory services in the Auckland region. We’ve heard about long waiting times for tests, long waiting ...

• Primary Health Care must be a priority

  Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 19:28 in health, new zealand, green party, restructuring, pho, primary health, environment & resource management

  The Government’s announcement that they are moving to achieve the unrealised goals of the Primary Health Care Strategy needs to be taken with a grain of salt. So far the National Government has virtually ignored primary health and in some areas act...