9 November 2015

Reducing employment conditions of health staff not a good response to financial pressures on DHBs

“Trying to reduce the employment conditions of health staff is not a good response to the government’s financial pressures on district health boards,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS).

He was commenting on news that 3000 allied health workers across three Auckland district health boards (DHBs) will go on strike this week to protest against plans to stretch them even further (https://www.psa.org.nz/media/releases/health-workers-at-3-auckland-dhbs-to-strike-for-better-public-healthcare/).

“The DHBs allied health staff are being expected to pay for the public health service twice – as taxpayers like everyone else and again as DHB employees.”

“The Government and health bosses need to invest in their health workforce rather than expect their staff to subsidise their responsibilities,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS).

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