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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]
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 >>
DHBs acting irresponsibly in industrial dispute
Friday, 25 January 2019, 3:33 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
By refusing the Medical Council’s offer to facilitate talks in the escalating industrial dispute affecting public hospitals, District Health Boards are putting hardworking hospital staff under increasing pressure and risk creating alarm among ... More >>
Solution to DHB financial deficits rests with Government
Saturday, 19 January 2019, 5:33 pm | ASMS
This was response to the published report that almost all DHBs were tracking towards financial deficits for the financial year ending 30 June from Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS). https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12192429 More >>
Wellington GPs to strike again
Thursday, 17 January 2019, 12:32 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
GPs at Wellington’s Ora Toa Health practices will strike again tomorrow (FRIDAY) for a full day because of the employer’s stubborn refusal to include dentists in the collective agreement. More >>
ASMS Advice on RMO National Strike(s)
Wednesday, 9 January 2019, 10:14 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
In the last national ASMS Direct I reported on the challenges facing ASMS on navigating our way through anticipated but not confirmed resident medical officer national strikes. This included providing some context and discussing the DHBs’ bargaining strategy. ... More >>
Dear David – A new year challenge
Monday, 7 January 2019, 2:44 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Health Minister David Clark could make a good start to 2019 by admitting there is a crisis in the specialist workforce, Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) Executive Director Ian Powell says. More >>
Christmas Eve strike at five Wellington practices
Sunday, 23 December 2018, 1:58 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Doctors at five Wellington practices will strike for a full day tomorrow in the final action in a set of rolling strikes. More >>
More GP strikes likely in the new year
Thursday, 20 December 2018, 10:39 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Efforts to avert a full-day Christmas Eve strike have failed, and further strikes are now likely, after Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira again refused to engage with the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS). More >>
Last ditch effort to resolve industrial action
Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 4:05 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) and Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira (Ora Toa Health) will meet tomorrow (Wednesday) in a last-gasp effort to resolve industrial action and prevent a full-day strike on Christmas Eve. Tomorrow will also ... More >>
Third Wellington GP strike to go ahead
Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 5:15 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
A third Wellington GP strike is set to go ahead tomorrow as general practitioners continue to show solidarity with their dental colleagues. More >>
Second Wellington GP strike planned for tomorrow
Sunday, 9 December 2018, 12:12 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Doctors at five Wellington general practices are due to strike for an hour tomorrow morning, the second in a series of walkouts over the exclusion of their dentist colleagues from their collective employment agreement. More >>
Doctors walked off the job at five Wellington GP practices
Friday, 7 December 2018, 5:32 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Doctors at five Wellington general practices walked off the job for an hour this morning over the exclusion of their dentist colleagues from the collective employment agreement covering doctors. More >>
GP strike to go ahead after employer refuses to budge
Thursday, 6 December 2018, 3:40 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Twenty-one doctors at five Iwi health provider practices will take the first ever strike action by New Zealand general practitioners tomorrow (Friday) after efforts to avert the strike failed. More >>
Health Minister needs to support senior doctor accord
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 7:25 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The senior doctors’ union says the Health Minister needs to get off the fence over the issue of a safe staffing accord for hospital specialists. More >>
Mental health and addiction inquiry report welcomed
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 1:15 pm | ASMS
The union for senior doctors (including psychiatrists) has welcomed today’s release of a new report into mental health, which acknowledges more needs to be done to strengthen the specialist workforce. More >>
Senior doctors call on Minister to support safe staffing
Monday, 3 December 2018, 8:19 am | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) is calling on Health Minister David Clark to support the development of a safe staffing accord with senior doctors and dentists working in public hospitals. More >>
Senior doctors call on Minister to support safe staffing
Sunday, 2 December 2018, 4:01 pm | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) is calling on Health Minister David Clark to support the development of a safe staffing accord with senior doctors and dentists working in public hospitals. More >>
