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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 38]
Doctors Welcome Increased Hospice Funding
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 8:41 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Senior doctors welcome the Labour-Progressive Government’s announcement of increased health spending for hospices,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. The Association represents senior doctors ... More >>
Privatisation Threatens Health Integration
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 5:15 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The unexpected and dramatic decision of health bosses in the Otago and Southland district health boards to privatise their public hospital laboratories to overseas owned private profit-making companies threatens to destroy the government’s desire ... More >>
Doctors Insisting On Time For Quality Improvement
Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 9:28 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
ATTENTION: HEALTH REPORTER NO. OF PAGES: 1 MEDIA STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, MONDAY 11 APRIL 2005 More >>
Senior Doctors Push For Workforce Planning
Friday, 8 April 2005, 8:16 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Senior doctors are pushing for effective and practical workforce planning and development to help overcome the unacceptable delays facing patients waiting for their first specialist assessment,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association ... More >>
Govt Needs To Act On Medical Student Debt
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 3:58 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The Government needs to act in its next Budget on the recommendations arising of the impressive survey of medical student debt,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. Mr Powell was referring ... More >>
Boards should consider employing salaried GP's
Thursday, 3 February 2005, 4:12 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“More district health boards should follow the lead of the West Coast DHB and offer general practitioners the option of direct salaried employment with them in order to overcome New Zealand’s serious GP shortages and to meet the needs of a new generation ... More >>
Senior Doctors Seek More Influence
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 5:11 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Senior doctors are seeking more influence in district health board decision-making and greater clinical democracy,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. More >>
Anderton Congratulated For Fact Finding Mission
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 11:24 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“At last, a politician who wants to find out the facts before commenting on what happens in public hospitals,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. More >>
Opposition Parties Barking Up Wrong Health Tree
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 4:17 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
''Opposition parties ACT and National are barking up the wrong health tree with their proposal to contract out public hospital work to the private sector,'' said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. More >>
“Senior doctors congratulate nurses”
Friday, 17 December 2004, 4:19 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Senior doctors congratulate nurses for achieving their first national collective agreement covering district health boards, the first for over a decade. At the risk of sounding like John Campbell, it is an absolutely marvellous outcome,” said Mr ... More >>
Admission Proposal Threatens Patient Safety
Monday, 29 November 2004, 5:49 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The proposal to co-locate the private accident and medical clinic with the emergency department at Wanganui Hospital is so poorly thought out, so short-sighted, and so focused on questionable cost-cutting that it risks threatening standards of care ... More >>
Signs Of Psychological Disturbance Among Doctors
Monday, 1 November 2004, 10:32 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
''The report that around 29% of senior hospital doctors were suffering from ‘psychological distress’ is very worrying and something that both the government and district health boards should seriously consider how to remedy,'' said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director ... More >>
“Government Should Consider Salaried GP Option”
Friday, 29 October 2004, 3:22 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The government should seriously consider the option of salaried general practitioner employment by district health boards to help overcome concern about patients being deterred from seeing a GP because of cost,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director ... More >>
National Resident Doctors Strike A Catastrophe
Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 8:54 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The six day national strike next month by resident doctors employed by district health boards will be a catastrophe,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. More >>
Govt Action Required On Resident Doctors Strike
Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 12:24 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Urgent government action is required if the catastrophic national six day strike is not to be a complete disaster for patients,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. More >>
Doctors National Collective Agreement
Friday, 15 October 2004, 3:58 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Senior doctors employed by district health boards have overwhelmingly voted to ratify their first national collective agreement since 1992,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. The ... More >>
Health Insurers Raise Interesting Challenges
Thursday, 14 October 2004, 11:33 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Health insurers are to be commended for raising some interesting challenges and encouraging debate but unfortunately they miss the boat on solutions,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. ... More >>
Charity Hospital Powerful Message For Government
Wednesday, 13 October 2004, 2:00 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The forthcoming charity hospital in Christchurch is a powerful message for the government which it should not ignore,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. More >>
Chief Executive Appointment Applauded
Friday, 8 October 2004, 2:52 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The appointment of John Peters as the new chief executive of the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board is applauded,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. More >>
“Increasing concern over new health bureaucracies”
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 11:18 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“There is increasing concern over the new government-supported Primary Health Organisations simply becoming another layer of bureaucracy in an already heavily bureaucratised health system,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried ... More >>
