Support Our Doctors
Support our Doctors and the wider Health Service
Join our doctors to show your support on May 1st.
Some background information on why this is IMPORTANT and why we need a well funded health service and well paid health professionals.
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• Privatising our health system is not a model we want in New Zealand. In the USA people are made bankrupt to pay for health procedures and healthcare is witheld if you don’t have the means to pay for it.
• Private health insurance premiums increase with age and are loaded for existing health conditions. e.g. pensioners and people with existing chronic health conditions unable to afford private health premiums.
• Private operators are in it to make a profit and they will cherry pick the most profitable cases.
• Private hospitals don’t train staff, they poach them leaving public hospitals struggling to staff their operations.
• Funding the public health system properly is the most sound economic return on tax payer money (15-20% of every dollar put into private health is syphoned off as profits and often offshored to rich corporates / investment companies)
• Private Health does not offer a better level of care. Should anything go horribly wrong in the private system you will be shipped back to the public system to mop up the mess.
• Our public health system has been chronically underfunded for years but moving to a private health model is NOT the answer.
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
Poll: 🤖 What skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
The Reserve Bank has shared some pretty blunt advice: there’s no such thing as a “safe” job anymore 🛟😑
Robots are stepping into repetitive roles in factories, plants and warehouses. AI is taking care of the admin tasks that once filled many mid-level office jobs.
We want to know: As the world evolves, what skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
Want to read more? The Press has you covered!
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52.6% Human-centred experience and communication
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14.7% Critical thinking
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29.9% Resilience and adaptability
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2.7% Other - I will share below!
🌿 n8tidy – Week #14 Garden Clean-Up Giveaway!
Comment “I’m in!” to enter – Winner drawn Friday
Hi neighbours! 👋
Welcome to Week #13 of our community giveaway!
One lucky neighbour will win 1 hour of free gardening/yard clean-up from n8tidy this week.
How to participate
💬 Comment “I’m in!” below to enter
📅 Entries close Friday
🎲 Draw will take place Friday evening
5️⃣ Minimum 5 participants required
🙅 Current n8tidy customers cannot participate
🔄 You can join again every week!
What you can use your free hour for
- Weed removal
- Edging & trimming
- Light pruning
- Lawn mowing/Garden tidy-up
No green waste collection
The winner will be contacted directly to arrange their free clean-up hour.
Good luck everyone — and thanks for supporting local! 🌿😊
Fred - n8tidy
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