OPINION: Budget doesn't cover cracks in health system
A $48 million elective surgery boost will do little to cover the cracks starting to show in our public health system.
As our population gets increasingly older and more obese, the demand for healthcare is growing exponentially. Healthcare is at a junction in New Zealand. So the timing couldn’t be better for the Ministry of Health to be updating the country’s health strategy.
Pleasingly, it's looking at financial
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