Health Strategy - Right Prescription But No Commitment

"There is nothing new in the Government's Primary Health Care Strategy. The strategy is yet another Government document released with heaps of hype but no funding or other commitments that are necessary to make it work," National MP Wyatt Creech said today.

"Nobody would dispute the need for primary health care to play a greater role in our health system.

"There are a lot of fine ideas in the document but until the Government actually takes the next step and commits to implementing them there won't be any progress.

"New Zealanders were promised the Government would deliver in health. All they have delivered so far is ill-conceived structural reforms and a document full of ideas - including many platitudes and clichés - but no commitment to implement them," Mr Creech said.

Ends

© Scoop Media

Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>