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To: Health Minister Simeon Brown can make this happen
Properly staff and resource our Hospitals
We are calling on the Government to address the inadequacies in our failing health system. There is a lack of action and a need for a bipartisan approach to healthcare and to address the state of staffing issues. This petition seeks to address the failing state of our hospital infrastructure, and the need for the Government to build facilities that are fit for purpose. The public needs transparency, information and engagement regarding investigations and reports on these issues.
ACTION 1: Ensure that all hospitals in New Zealand are properly staffed and resourced to meet the needs of their communities, now and into the future.
ACTION 1: Ensure that all hospitals in New Zealand are properly staffed and resourced to meet the needs of their communities, now and into the future.
ACTION 2: Those hospitals that need rebuilding, such as Nelson Hospital, are rebuilt to meet the needs of the local community, now and into the future.
ACTION 3: Publicly release all independent and internal reports into care at Nelson Hospital as well as all reports into healthcare provision in New Zealand, to provide full transparency to the public on issues of care within hospitals and the healthcare system.
ACTION 3: Publicly release all independent and internal reports into care at Nelson Hospital as well as all reports into healthcare provision in New Zealand, to provide full transparency to the public on issues of care within hospitals and the healthcare system.
Why is this important?
Aotearoa should be a place where people who are in need can access hospitals and get timely treatment, where staff are supported and properly resourced to give quality care. We have the opportunity to ensure that the most medically vulnerable people in our communities are properly supported through their journeys to improved health and wellbeing.
New Zealand is facing a health crisis. People are suffering, and some are dying, because they can't access the treatment they need.
Our hospitals need to be rebuilt, better resourced and better staffed. New Zealanders deserve a healthcare system that doesn't leave them waiting for months or years just to get the treatment they need; and medical professionals deserve to work in an environment that enables them to deliver the care their patients need and deserve.
“We have over a thousand patients that are waiting for either a first specialist appointment or a follow-up appointment. I've never seen that number of patients waiting to be seen."
— Dr. Claudia Hays, head of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department at Nelson Marlborough Health [1]
New Zealand is facing a health crisis. People are suffering, and some are dying, because they can't access the treatment they need.
Our hospitals need to be rebuilt, better resourced and better staffed. New Zealanders deserve a healthcare system that doesn't leave them waiting for months or years just to get the treatment they need; and medical professionals deserve to work in an environment that enables them to deliver the care their patients need and deserve.
“We have over a thousand patients that are waiting for either a first specialist appointment or a follow-up appointment. I've never seen that number of patients waiting to be seen."
— Dr. Claudia Hays, head of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department at Nelson Marlborough Health [1]
“Certainly I have seen patients that I believe their disease has gone from curable to incurable during that waiting time."
— Dr Suzanne Beuker, senior doctor and consultant for the Urology Department at Nelson Marlborough Health [1]
— Dr Suzanne Beuker, senior doctor and consultant for the Urology Department at Nelson Marlborough Health [1]
“Someone put my life at risk by changing my diagnosis. This could’ve damn near killed me.”
— Daniel Walker, Nelson patient whose nine-week wait likely increased the spread of his testicular cancer [2]
— Daniel Walker, Nelson patient whose nine-week wait likely increased the spread of his testicular cancer [2]
The Government needs to build facilities that are fit for purpose for our aging and growing population. Despite the growing crisis, there is a lack of action. We need a bipartisan approach to healthcare that resolves these issues once and for all.
The public needs transparency, information and engagement regarding investigations and reports on these issues; and in particular the independent investigation at Nelson Hospital.
Sign this petition and together we can hold the government to account and make sure our hospitals are resourced enough to help our family and friends in need.