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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Opinion
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Health system failing like the USSR

Hidesight: Patients are pushed down waiting lists as hospital staff are taught te reo and the evils of colonialism.

Rodney Hide Wed, 07 Aug 2019

The one and only political problem in health when I entered Parliament late last century was waiting lists. People didn’t like being queued up in pain.

It took a change of government and Annette King to fix the problem. She made the sick wait to get onto the waiting list. Waiting list numbers

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