This article lays out the issues we face in healthcare. We are not keeping up with current cost pressure, let alone dealing with the $33bn of underinvestment following the GFC. The choices of the past are now coming home to roost. #nzpol theconversation.com/nzs-health-s...

Surgeons respond to Minister’s decision not to reappoint senior MCNZ managers: Four senior leaders of the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) have not been reappointed to further terms including the Chair, ENT surgeon Dr Rachelle Love. Read our response: www.surgeons.org/News/media-r...

Interesting seeing "Machines are good at: Humans are good at" discussions about AI. Also: -the "unanticipated" cognitive impacts on developing expertise -how it can fail in complex, multi-level work. It's like people have never heard of Joint Cognitive Systems ai-frontiers.org/articles/how...

The suggestion that we need a few "Small Modular Reactors" reminds me of Blackadder visiting his doctor You know the leech comes to us on the highest authority? Yes. I know that. Dr. Hoffmann of Stuttgart, isn't it? That's right, the great Hoffmann. Owner of the largest leech farm of Europe.

Excellent backgrounder on Elizabeth Rata's recent education curriculum hijack. #NzPol

National MPs, with their six figure salaries, who claim accommodation supplements that are more than some state housing occupants earn in a year, stripping away accomm support for state housing tenants is some next level hypocritical cruelty. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... #nzpol

Starting nearly 10 years ago we had discussions with successive RACP presidents about extending Operate With Respect resources for their needs. No need, they said, we don't have a bullying problem like the surgeons do. In retrospect... maybe they did. 👀😱

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

John Campbell is back doing what he does best – interrupting prime ministers

NZ’s primary care model rewards volume over complexity. Properly funding high-needs patients would make the system safer and more sustainable.

This seems like a perfect opportunity to share a profile I wrote of Richard almost a decade ago for Brain Research NZ (I miss those peeps) www.lauriewinkless.com/journal/rich...

All this expense (prison is $$) & brutality, just to avoid the cheaper option of providing housing. Multiple studies worldwide: Providing housing & medical care is the cheapest & most likely way to ensure anyone in this situation recovers. But our Govt are stupid, wasteful, cruel dipshits. #nzpol

Helen Petousis-Harris's piece on how the WHO is vital for New Zealand just nails it. While I am here, can I also just say that @helenp-h.bsky.social is a national treasure. theconversation.com/who-membersh...

This is so important. I’ve taken care of children who didn’t die from their vaccine preventable illness but instead -lost limbs -developed kidney failure requiring dialysis -had strokes and permanent deficits Death isn’t the only bad outcome. And sometimes it may not be the worst one.

I know this reflects immense privilege, but current data suggest MRI and contrast enhanced mamm (CEM) really do detect far more #BreastCancer in dense breasts (~19 cancers/1000 screens) than breast tomo or ultrasound (~2-3 cancers/1000 screens). Pay for them if you can. Dang #HealthEquity 😖

'Med school is a walk in the park if the park is on fire and you're being chased by wild dogs'. Michelle Leech, president of Medical Deans ANZ notes multiple factors causing 60% of medical students to be on Centrelink. The success of widening access, needs to be matched by SUPPORT. #MedEd #MedSky

"Turnover of doctors who achieve medical registration is very high with 60% of these doctors leaving New Zealand within two years. Retention is the substantive problem, not registration." newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/24/h...

Teachers, drs, nurses, etc are dealing with a government that has refused to listen and has steadily stripped away anything that is useful and makes it possible to do a great job. The strike on the 23 Oct is 100% necessary. The strike on the 23 Oct is 100% justified.

Moreover - surprise, medical unions can do maths and count up the fake salaries, beds and jobs you claim exist, and teachers can immediately isolate your bad faith lies and speak clearly and impactfully to the media about it, it's as if they're highly qualified and educated professionals.

New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice

. Gaza The dead boy tries to open his eyes. He wants to see the world he is leaving. But there is nothing to see here, nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone. His parents held him while he died but they are both dead, too. Or he held them, no one remembers. .

To achieve positive things in public office depends critically on the ability to maintain constructive relationships. I’m proud of my record of working with Auckland’s key decision makers for a more prosperous and liveable and inclusive 21stC city, and that’s how I’ll operate as your councillor:

A reminder that Councillor Mike Lee fought hard to stop all improvements downtown as he does to this day everywhere. Fortunately he is also ineffective and was unable to stop these upgrades. He is stuck in last century and stuck in the role. Help him move on: Vote for a positive future

Where to drop off voting papers? Heaps of places, right up to midday on Oct 11. Post boxes too, but will need to be earlier. voteauckland.co.nz/en/informati...

A story in two parts: 1) A proud announcement from the Minister of Health about the new ICU and HDU at Tauranga Hospital 2) A comment from the Clinical lead for Tauranga ICU

Let’s call it what it is. Scrapping pay equity claims for women, then saying limiting human rights is “justified” to protect employers, isn’t neutral. It’s misogyny baked into lawmaking. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Personally I love it when the government works very hard to keep massive law changes a secret and then retrospectively releases all the information about it at 8.34pm on a Thursday www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

A printer's favourite time to fail is the time when you need to print something important before leaving the house. Because they are Satan's manifestation in the earthly realm.

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

I'm writing up my submission to the Education and Workforce Committee Inquiry on online harms for young people on Monday. I'll be saying exactly this. My focus is international human rights law and what's in the best interest of the child and it's not surveillance. www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

To have age verification is to accept platforms cannot change. It's not forcing accountability at all. It's accepting they have the power to continue to do nothing about the harms that exist on their services, that children will inevitably encounter when they turn 17. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

People may question why I’m opening up now, or calling this a political hit job. Frankly I don’t care what people call it, the community DESERVES to know who these men are. If they can’t treat colleagues with basic decency, they don’t deserve to be elected. Don’t be gross, easy as that.

northandsouth.co.nz/2025/07/02/t... Feeling safe is a rare feeling…sparse or nonexistent resources make everyone feel like they’re stretched thin, knowing that errors leading to patient harm are more likely. But there’s also a real fear that just speaking out will draw a large target on their back.

Culturally unsafe healthcare is unsafe healthcare – we cannot pretend otherwise

Misogyny isn't just slurs or violence, it's decisions like this that uphold patriarchal systems. It's state reinforcement of gender inequality. You are hurt by being called a slur, but you are holding up systemic oppression of women. If you don't see that, then you cannot say you care about misogyny

youtube.com/shorts/CuSwN... I made some people big mad with this one

#HīkoiForHealth Day 4! Thankyou Hamilton Parked up at Te Kōhao Health today. It was a special day of kōrero. We were humbled by the community’s manaaki and presence. Thankyou to everyone who came out to share with us. 🚑 Tomoro, Wed April 30, we're in Whakatāne! Knox Presbyterian Church, 5pm-7pm 🚑

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Nicola Toki wants Aotearoa to fall in love with nature again

Can Auckland Council finally do the impossible and get rid of one (1) golf course?

I spent about 30 hours over four weeks reading all 716 pages of the report of the Royal Commission into the Covid-19 response, then wrote two articles detailing its findings and recommendations. With the paywall now lifted on both of those pieces, here's what I found. 🧵

Between the unsecured bombing chats and eliminating FEMA and trafficking legal residents to foreign labor prisons and supermaxxing measles and halting cancer research, it’s so hard these days to guess how you’re gonna die

"Setting targets and measuring outcomes makes sense only if we understand the cost of making progress and accept that with limited resources, progress in one dimension comes at the cost of progress in another." www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

Luxon obviously doesn’t understand the problem that the lunch in schools was/is trying to solve. For a number of children, a nutritious meal at school would be the only nutritious food they have in the day. It’s not that parents can’t be fucked making a marmite sandwich for their children.