Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) - Latest News [Page 47]
Urgent Action To Address Recruitment And Retention
Friday, 6 April 2001, 9:56 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Urgent action is needed to avoid the growing recruitment and retention crisis for public hospital senior doctors. The current crisis for radiation specialists is the tip of a much larger iceberg,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association ... More >>
Health Workforce Committee Welcome News
Monday, 2 April 2001, 1:51 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The announcement today of the new Health Workforce Advisory Committee is welcome news for senior doctors and the wider health sector,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. More >>
Govt Warned Not To Under-Fund Public Hospitals
Wednesday, 28 March 2001, 4:26 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Senior doctors are warning the government not to under-fund public hospitals in this year’s budget as they are already struggling to cope,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. This followed ... More >>
Trying To Blend The Froth With The Cappuccino
Monday, 26 March 2001, 11:02 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
First let me express my appreciation for the opportunity to again address your meeting, to update you with developments in the land that, according to an Australian adviser to our right wing ACT party, has the potential to save an endangered species and ... More >>
Senior Doctors Welcome Credentialling Report
Thursday, 15 March 2001, 5:46 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Senior doctors welcome the credentialling report released today by the Ministry of Health but warn that to realise its potential it must be professionally rather than management led,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of ... More >>
Urgent Action Needed Over Specialist Shortages
Monday, 12 March 2001, 11:30 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Urgent action is needed over the increasing crisis caused by specialist shortages in public hospitals including in cancer treatment,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. Mr Powell was ... More >>
Health Minister Should Take A Cold Shower
Friday, 9 March 2001, 10:39 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Health Minister Annette King should take a cold shower after her personal attack on the chairperson of the NZ Medical Association Dr Pippa Mackay this morning over the withdrawal of GPs from maternity care,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director ... More >>
Health Minister Congratulated For Honesty
Wednesday, 14 February 2001, 12:43 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Minister of Health Annette King is to be congratulated for her honesty in admitting that she unintentionally used misleading figures to describe hospital waiting list reductions,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried ... More >>
Senior Doctors Launch Major Quality Care Campaign
Tuesday, 13 February 2001, 5:36 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Senior hospital doctors have launched a major quality care campaign intended to better ensure that patients receive the standard of care that they deserve,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, ... More >>
ASMS: Discussion Document Non-Clinical Activities
Tuesday, 13 February 2001, 5:34 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
DISCUSSION PAPER NO.4 70/30 SPLIT: NON-CLINICAL ACTIVITIES – A VITAL PART OF ANY JOB SIZE More >>
Health Critics Express Appreciation For Creech
Thursday, 1 February 2001, 11:44 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“As one of the strongest critics of the health policy of the former National government in the 1990s we want to express our appreciation for the work of departing former health minister Wyatt Creech,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association ... More >>
Health Bosses Neglecting Employment Conditions
Wednesday, 24 January 2001, 3:49 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Auckland District Health Board bosses are neglecting the employment conditions of their senior doctors despite them being the glue that hold the city’s health system together,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried ... More >>
Wrong Organisation To Consider Overseas Doctors
Tuesday, 23 January 2001, 10:09 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The Commerce Commission is the wrong organisation to consider complaints by overseas doctors against the Medical Council’s registration process and decisions,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, ... More >>
Public Hospitals Need Clinical Democracy
Tuesday, 16 January 2001, 11:11 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Clinical democracy is need in public hospitals in order to improve their effectiveness, quality, safety and morale,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. More >>
Salaried Employment Of GPs Would Help Primary Care
Monday, 18 December 2000, 11:25 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Salaried employment of GPs by the new district health boards would help the proposed move towards fully funded primary health care,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. “The overwhelming majority ... More >>
Tairawhiti Healthcare Chief Executive Appointment
Friday, 17 November 2000, 3:48 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Senior doctors are pleased with the appointment of Mr Jim Green as Chief Executive of Tairawhiti Healthcare,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. Mr Green was recruited from Northland Health ... More >>
Doctors reject medical misadventure levy
Tuesday, 31 October 2000, 5:40 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Doctors reject any suggestion that the no-fault nature of the accident insurance scheme should be changed by introducing a levy on health professionals, says the New Zealand Medical Association. More >>
“Come On Wyatt! What A Whopper”
Friday, 13 October 2000, 9:31 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Former health minister Wyatt Creech is telling a huge whopper when he claims that high patient satisfaction with health professionals in public hospitals is due to his former government’s ‘health reforms’,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director ... More >>
Proposed ACC Levy For Doctors Unfair
Thursday, 5 October 2000, 3:01 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The proposal to impose an accident compensation levy on doctors is unfair and conflicts with the Government’s own principles over accident compensation,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. More >>
Ian Powell Address To The Anzaus Seminar
Monday, 25 September 2000, 9:58 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
First let me express my appreciation for the invitation to address your conference on the theme of an alternative to salaried employment in the public sector. Let me also acknowledge from the outside, from a position of pride, that I am not a lawyer. ... More >>