Reproduced with permission from NZMJ
Editor M. GARY NICHOLLS
(ex Hawera)
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[1] New Zealand Medical Journal Editorial 22 June 2001  Click on the area you wish to enlarge on the reproduction to the left.
[2] New Zealand Medical Journal Editorial 25 May 2001 - Excerpts:
- "Everyone wants an excellent health service that is accessible and affordable....Over the last 10-15 years ideological swings by government have altered systems of funding and governance but on each occasion central control and the power of management has increased....Our performance is rated 80th in the world on level of health [by the WHO] ....The common factors uncovered by the enquiries into Gisborne and Christchurch Hospitals and Cervical Screening include breakdown in relationships between management and staff, authoritarian management, exclusion of qualified staff and their ideas..and [political] interference....We urgently need to return to the professionalism that existed in health...before the 'reforms'...and to remove Health from detailed control by Treasury and CCMAU, and the domination by general management".
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