• Pot8o@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    WTF NZ?
    Not too be a vulture but come to sunny Bundaberg, Queensland! We need health staff :P

  • TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz
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    2 months ago

    This is a direct result of under-funding the health service in order to trash it to make NZ more amenable to privatisation of health.

    Yes, National did increase the allocation in the current budget but using Treasury’s numbers instead of Health’s resulted in a 3% decrease in funding per head of population.

    Underfunding like that when we have an aging population is immensely stupid, but the wealthier, older white people will be ok, its the poor, working class that are going to suffer.

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      2 months ago

      Difficult time to find work, but the people I know, morale is low & they’re increasingly being asked to follow questionable processes or implement things that are hard to tolerate let alone agree with.

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        2 months ago

        That certainly sounds like the work they’ve got me involved in (migrating staff onto a common computer platform)

        there’s just no way moving the users and computers away from the hospital where all their data and systems reside is going to be an improvement for anyone…