By: berend
Wow, we’re now almost efficient as the NHS. I suppose the only problem facing those relying on government healthcare is to get a booking.
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Defund nanny state health lobby groups. Where does the anti smoking bollocks fit in to that? Nanny gone mad.
View ArticleBy: JMS
Nanny started to go mad when Cannabis was prohibited in the 1930s, now nanny’s having a go at Tobacco, and if these Labour nitwits get control a simple glass of beer will cost at least another dollar.
View ArticleBy: willtruth
“My only wish is Ryall goes further and defunds all the public health lobby groups which campaign for nanny state policies, and puts the money saved into elective surgery.” Yes, why waste money on...
View ArticleBy: anonymouse
arrrrggghhhhh, DPF please stop the sneaking Americanisation of your English, Surgeries is not a countable noun in NZ English, the countable term is Operations, (as the press release uses), you can use...
View ArticleBy: gazzmaniac
anonymouse: Where does a doctor cut people open? In his surgery. If there are two of those places next to each other, there are two surgeries. It is a countable noun. DPF is just using it to count...
View ArticleBy: Jinky
No gazzmaniac. Doctors cut people open in an operating theatre. Surgeons do surgery while operating on patients.
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By: Farky
Why the focus on elective surgery waiting times? Funny that Ryall seems to think he is doing so well… I have been recently told by the public system that I have to wait 8 months to see a specialist...
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By: RRM
I wonder how much of the reduction in waiting lists is really due to greater “efficiency”, and how much is due to restricting access to those wanting to get on the waiting list in the first place? When...
View ArticleBy: RightNow
RRM – what part of “An extra 7,500 patients received elective surgery” did you fail to understand?
View ArticleBy: gazzmaniac
Jinky – there is nothing in the English language preventing two words meaning the same thing, and one of those words having two meanings. It happens all the time.
View ArticleBy: peterwn
See: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10827415 “Elective surgery costing primary care – Street” Just divert money from health lobby groups to primary care – problem...
View ArticleBy: UpandComer
Farky – in theory there is no ceiling on health costs. It’s quite stark, but elective surgeries are in the aggregate more beneficial then cancer treatments. No one can afford a public health system...
View ArticleBy: Mak
[only 150 patients who are booked to see a specialist or for surgery are waiting more than six months across the country at any one time.] I think you’ll find the devil is in the detail here – how long...
View ArticleBy: berend
Wow, we’re now almost efficient as the NHS. I suppose the only problem facing those relying on government healthcare is to get a booking.
View ArticleBy: kowtow
Defund nanny state health lobby groups. Where does the anti smoking bollocks fit in to that? Nanny gone mad.
View ArticleBy: JMS
Nanny started to go mad when Cannabis was prohibited in the 1930s, now nanny’s having a go at Tobacco, and if these Labour nitwits get control a simple glass of beer will cost at least another dollar.
View ArticleBy: willtruth
“My only wish is Ryall goes further and defunds all the public health lobby groups which campaign for nanny state policies, and puts the money saved into elective surgery.” Yes, why waste money on...
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