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[MaybeTop8]

Lester Levy and this government's hard right ideology. Breaking the health system in the name of greed and neoliberalism. Good riddance to Lester Levy.




God forbid we should ever have health people, caring people, involved in our health system



This government have truly wrecked the health system

How the Levy finally broke: 'The ninth floor went cold on Lester’

Opinion: It was Lester Levy's strong relationship with Christopher Luxon that put him in charge of the country's biggest organisation, Health NZ. But he's now learnt the hard way about over-promising and under-delivering, argues Ian Powell.

newsroom.co.nz

 

[MaybeTop8]

Who knew slashing and burning had severe consequences

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Who knew slashing and burning had severe consequences

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Great National led Govt, increasing health staff numbers significantly:

Nurses (largest workforce)​

• 2023: 69,000–70,000 practising nurses (derived from later growth figures)
• 2024: 78,700 practising nurses
• 2025: 85,462 practising nurses

Health NZ employed nurses (FTE, hospitals etc):

• 2023: 26,505 FTE
• 2024: 29,400 FTE
• 2025: 35,341 headcount (not all FTE)

https://www.healthnz.govt.nz/publications/employed-workforce-quarterly-reports-2024-25

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Not necessarily. When housing costs are pushed higher through regulation (interest deductibility, artificially restricting land use, etc) the lower decile miss out…

We need housing supply

Show me a time with a market economy and zero houses being built, cos I can show you 10,000 years of no market economy and houses being built.

Removing structural impediments to business development is not going to collapse house building. See 1940s-1980s Australia and NZ. We built plenty of houses

 

[MaybeTop8]

Great National led Govt, increasing health staff numbers significantly:

Nurses (largest workforce)​

• 2023: 69,000–70,000 practising nurses (derived from later growth figures)
• 2024: 78,700 practising nurses
• 2025: 85,462 practising nurses

Health NZ employed nurses (FTE, hospitals etc):

• 2023: 26,505 FTE
• 2024: 29,400 FTE
• 2025: 35,341 headcount (not all FTE)

https://www.healthnz.govt.nz/publications/employed-workforce-quarterly-reports-2024-25

 

[MaybeTop8]

Right up your alley Rick, you'll approve of this strategy

New Zealand is about to have its third Covid election

Remember the pandemic? Well you’re going to – if Simeon Brown and Christopher Luxon have anything to do with it.

thespinoff.co.nz

 

[MaybeTop8]

This is concerning


View: https://bsky.app/profile/fmacskasy.bsky.social/post/3mkgp7j5mqs24

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

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Mate, immigration has dried up so there’s hardly any extra demand!

There’s no cuts, fundings going up strongly, there lots of staff, health has been out of the headlines for good reasons and anecdotally, I know of 4 people having surgery recently and for all them the wait was faster than expected.

Health has been well managed by the coalition. For that we should all celebrate as New Zealanders.

 

[MaybeTop8]

Mate, immigration has dried up so there’s hardly any extra demand!

There’s no cuts, fundings going up strongly, there lots of staff, health has been out of the headlines for good reasons and anecdotally, I know of 4 people having surgery recently and for all them the wait was faster than expected.

Health has been well managed by the coalition. For that we should all celebrate as New Zealanders.

There have been huge cuts.

More lies from you, more rewriting history, more bullshit. Standard m.o.

Glad the four people did well.

 

[MaybeTop8]

The same names

The same dirty politics

The same right hand side of the political spectrum

The same wilfully blind media

How long does it take to do a Hobson's Pledge hit job?

Around 5 hours. Just follow the timeline below for a recent case study:

teatatinotoa.substack.com

 

[Rick O’Shay]

Right up your alley Rick, you'll approve of this strategy

New Zealand is about to have its third Covid election

Remember the pandemic? Well you’re going to – if Simeon Brown and Christopher Luxon have anything to do with it.

thespinoff.co.nz

Yup, will be a battlefield for sure. Never mind Luxon, think Chipster will be looking for another job come November and it won't be in Parliament