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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 9]
Health budget barely maintains the status quo
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 5:23 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“On initial analysis of the increase for health in today’s Budget is virtually enough to maintain the current level of service overall but district health board funding falls short by around $300 million,” says Lyndon Keene, Director of Policy ... More >>
Government’s mental health response a positive step forward
Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 2:16 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The Government’s response to its mental health review appears to be a significant step in the right direction but we now need the detail to see how much of a difference it will truly make,” says Lyndon Keene, Director of Policy and Research at the ... More >>
Decision to cut sexual health doctors clearly short-sighted
Tuesday, 28 May 2019, 3:24 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The struggle to contain Auckland’s syphilis outbreak is hardly surprising given the flawed decision by the city’s health bosses several years ago to cut the number of senior sexual health doctors in the region, says Sarah Dalton, Industrial Officer ... More >>
Health $3.2 billion under-funded since 2009/10
Thursday, 23 May 2019, 10:37 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
A pre-budget analysis conducted by the Council of Trade Unions and Association of Salaried Medical Specialists has highlighted a vast spending shortfall in health since 2009/2010. More >>
Doctor unions embrace common approach to issues
Wednesday, 8 May 2019, 4:01 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Doctor unions embrace common approach to issues arising from safer rostering efforts More >>
Bitter dispute could have unintended consequences
Tuesday, 30 April 2019, 11:21 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
A winner-takes-all approach in the acrimonious junior doctor dispute could have the unintended effect of making hospital specialists think twice about district health boards as employers of choice, says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association ... More >>
DHBs’ false allegation on resident doctor union rights
Friday, 26 April 2019, 2:50 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
District Health Boards are misleading the public by repeatedly claiming the Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) is the only health sector union with the right to control some of their working conditions and then falsely describing this right as a union ... More >>
Removal of pathologists from skills shortage list unwise
Thursday, 18 April 2019, 10:09 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The senior doctors’ union says its concerns about the immigration status of pathologists have been acknowledged but the Government’s response falls well short of what is needed. More >>
Hospital specialists congratulate midwives on accord
Tuesday, 16 April 2019, 11:26 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Hospital midwives are to be congratulated for successfully negotiating a safer staffing accord – and now it’s the turn of hospital specialists to have a similar agreement with the Government to address the serious workforce issues they’re dealing ... More >>
Phew!
Monday, 15 April 2019, 4:08 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Phew is the reaction from Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) to the news that the Employment Relations Authority will undertake a ‘facilitation’ of the long-running toxic industrial dispute between ... More >>
Senior doctors pleased review chief understands workforce
Monday, 15 April 2019, 9:26 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Senior doctors pleased health review chief understands importance of workforce More >>
DHBs urged to address hospital specialist burnout
Wednesday, 10 April 2019, 10:08 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Stress, fatigue, and overwork are taking a toll on New Zealand’s public hospital specialists and District Health Boards need to do much more to support them, Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) Executive Director Ian Powell says. More >>
ERA’s cool head needed to break impasse in RDA-DHB dispute
Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 3:56 pm | ASMS
The senior doctors’ union is urging the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) to help sort out the long-running industrial dispute between resident (junior) doctors and their district health boards (DHBs). More >>
More questions than answers on mental health
Monday, 8 April 2019, 1:56 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The Mental Health and Addiction inquiry report has laudable aims but lacks detail about implementation and side-lines those who work in the sector, says Lyndon Keene, Director of Policy and Research at the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists ... More >>
Acute hospital admissions grow despite increased use of GPs
Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 7:15 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Acute hospital admissions are increasing well above the population growth rate despite increased use of general practice (GP) services, says Lyndon Keene, Director of Policy and Research for the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS). More >>
Special message to ASMS members
Tuesday, 19 March 2019, 9:10 am | ASMS
Following the shock and disbelief of the tragedy in Christchurch on Friday, the enormity of the incident is now beginning to sink in as the identities of the dead and seriously injured become known. To our Muslim members and to all who have relatives and friends ... More >>
Senior doctors’ union acknowledges Derek Wright
Sunday, 17 March 2019, 2:34 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The senior doctors’ union says departing Waikato District Health Board interim chief Derek Wright provided much-needed stability in the wake of the Nigel Murray scandal. More >>
Senior doctors urge Govt to address chronic pain burden
Friday, 8 March 2019, 1:26 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The Government needs to make sure the public health system has enough specialists to treat chronic pain to relieve the burden of suffering for patients and their families,” says Angela Belich, Deputy Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical ... More >>
Hospital specialists under increasing pressure
Monday, 4 February 2019, 12:46 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Health bosses have under-estimated both the level of support for the ongoing strikes by resident (junior) doctors and the impact on hospital specialists who are shouldering heavy workloads as a result,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association ... More >>
Research highlights hospital specialist shortage
Thursday, 31 January 2019, 9:36 am | ASMS
New Zealand needs at least another 1000 medical specialists to meet our growing health needs. That is the finding of two separate assessments of New Zealand’s specialist workforce needs in a new research paper published by the Association of Salaried ... More >>
