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Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS)
Working for better health care in New Zealand
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) – Toi Mata Hauora represents the professional and industrial interests of senior salaried doctors and dentists around New Zealand. Most of our members are employed by district health boards in New Zealand's public hospitals but some also work in hospices, union health centres and other places. Our membership also includes salaried GPs.
ASMS promotes the right of equal access for New Zealanders to high quality health services, articulates our members' professional concerns, advises members on employment-related matters, negotiates collective employment agreements on behalf of ASMS members, and supports workplace empowerment and distributive clinical leadership.
Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) - Latest News [Page 21]
Private health insurers looking after own interests
Monday, 17 November 2014, 3:27 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“All this talk of a worrying decline in private health insurance is just an attempt by the health insurance industry to protect its own commercial interests,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists ... More >>
Minister commended for dismissing flawed recommendations
Friday, 14 November 2014, 1:07 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
‘New Zealand’s system of health funding is not unsustainable, despite what Treasury and the Ministry of Health would have the Minister of Health believe,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS). More >>
Recognition of prolonged public hospital specialist shortage
Thursday, 13 November 2014, 11:05 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) has welcomed publication of a Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) report as the organisation’s first official recognition of prolonged medical specialist shortages in public hospitals. More >>
Action needed on palliative medicine specialist shortage
Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 11:03 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“New Zealand is desperately short of palliative medicine specialists and faces a crisis in that workforce within five years unless something is done urgently to address the situation,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association ... More >>
Employment law changes bad for public hospitals
Tuesday, 28 October 2014, 9:14 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Employment law changes expected to be rushed through Parliament today will be bad for public hospitals,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS), today. More >>
Southern DHB needs to hang onto Queenstown’s Hospital
Friday, 24 October 2014, 1:08 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“It’s looking more and more as if the Southern DHB’s management is so obsessed with turning around its financial deficit that it’s prepared to throw everything overboard in a bid to stay afloat – even the lifeboats and the passengers,” says ... More >>
Taranaki DHB commended for collaborative approach to rebuild
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 4:21 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Taranaki District Health Board is to be commended for the excellent way it has worked with senior doctors on the planning and rebuild of the region’s base hospital in New Plymouth,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried ... More >>
SDHB scapegoats doctors in desperate scramble to fix deficit
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 11:27 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
SDHB scapegoats doctors in desperate scramble to fix deficit “The bosses of the troubled Southern District Health Boards have turned on their own medical staff as they desperately scramble to save their hides and patch up the region’s deficit,” ... More >>
Specialists advised against working in Queensland
Wednesday, 8 October 2014, 1:44 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) is advising public hospital specialists in New Zealand not to take up jobs in Queensland in an electronic newsletter sent to all members late yesterday. More >>
ASMS Acknowledges Chief Executive's Contribution
Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 3:49 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) has acknowledged the contribution of the country’s longest-serving district health board chief executive, who has decided to step down from his leadership role. More >>
Southern DHB Nees to Broaden Approach
Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 2:49 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The narrow focus on deficits at the Southern District Health Board has claimed another casualty with the departure of medical director Dr James Knight,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists ... More >>
Public Hospital Specialists Welcome New Minister of Health
Monday, 6 October 2014, 1:10 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) welcomes the appointment of Dr Jonathan Coleman as the new Minister of Health. “We’re particularly delighted that a medical doctor has been appointed to the position,” says ASMS Executive ... More >>
Privatisation of Laboratory Services Not the Answer
Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 1:32 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) is worried public hospital managers are poised to privatise all or part of the hospital laboratories that look after the health needs of the greater Wellington region. More >>
Hate merchants at it again with smear tactics
Sunday, 28 September 2014, 1:00 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“It’s disappointing to see the hate merchants at it again with yet another attempt to smear and silence a health professional who’s doing research they disagree with,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists ... More >>
Dr Paul Hutchison praised for work to reduce child poverty
Friday, 26 September 2014, 4:01 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) has thanked retiring National MP Dr Paul Hutchison for his work to reduce child poverty. More >>
Specialists call for more senior doctors to cope with demand
Friday, 26 September 2014, 3:53 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Hospital specialists surveyed about the staffing of their departments are telling us loud and clear they need more senior doctors on the clinical front line,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists ... More >>
Tired Attempt to Pass Off Venal Campaign as Debate
Monday, 1 September 2014, 3:03 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The decision to bring British anti-tax spin doctor Christopher Snowdon to New Zealand last week was just another tired disingenuous attempt to dress up a venal campaign as a genuine debate,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association ... More >>
The Myth of Unsustainable Health Funding
Friday, 22 August 2014, 12:07 pm | ASMS
"The idea that New Zealand spends too much on public health care and cannot sustain the current level of funding is both wrong and damaging," says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS). More >>
Value of Clinical Engagement Highlighted
Thursday, 10 July 2014, 3:17 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The progress being made at MidCentral District Health Board to improve patient safety highlights the benefits of clinical engagement,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS). More >>
HBL conerns no surprise to senior doctors
Tuesday, 24 June 2014, 11:32 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The concerns being expressed about Health Benefits Limited in leaked letters and other documents from senior staff at district health boards will not be a surprise to senior doctors working in public hospitals,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director ... More >>
