The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 4th July 2019

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  1. We need to keep finding examples of us being concerned about each other to inspire us to do something ourselves, or we’re lost as a good human society. My favourite today from Radionz this a.m.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/393619/rotorua-man-s-mortgage-shelters-hundreds-of-homeless

    Mr Deane and his wife Lynley put their life on hold to take a gamble. He sold a rental house he owned, borrowed against his primary home, and set up a charity called Visions of a Helping Hand to try to house Rotorua’s homeless.

    “I didn’t even talk about it; we just did it. The next day I went out and found a property and we started feeding the people a week later.”
    “In less than 10 months, we had three shelters.”…

    (Hardship brings results – coping to continue – may lead to addiction, bouts of self-harm, anger outbreaks followed by deep depressions.)

    It’s a massive job. It’s bigger than I ever thought. Because I didn’t realise about the addictions, the anger, the built-up stuff. Some of these guys, it’s unbelievable what they’ve been through, and are still going through now, so it’s good to help.”

    He said the charity had helped place 12 people into permanent homes, about 50 into jobs, and saved the lives of seven people who had overdosed on drugs.

    What are we doing today to help others, even in some small way that doesn’t disrupt our lives greatly?

  2. What about Southland DHB being used as a pilot project and being run to be a good and effective hospital with extra money supplied to be applied solely to providing needed resources, people or buildings and machinery (including techology). They could devise a plan to make them effective and prioritise things for each year of say a five year plan.

    They have a new CEO who was in Nelson and was known as someone with an accountants mind and a bit of a micro-manager so why not utilise this person’s natural propensities. And perhaps have a supporting Commissioner at the Board table who listens and tracks the tasks and sees how they are going, and looks for the open crack that the others may not notice, to ensure that their plans are likely to proceed successfully. (Not to veto anything but just to provide overview, to the Board.)

    It has been said that the funding is insufficient for the Southland DHB as it has been a population model, and their area is great and sparsely populated. But I imagine that these people are productive and rural, and therefore the salt of the earth – NZ stereotypes of good people – good people should have good services.

    Also the return on capital as interest to the government on land and buildings should be revoked as a method of controlling uneconomic holdings. (I think it is applying business methods to hospital accounting with an idea that one day they might be sold and the health system privatised!) So stop that, and keep track of the extent of land and buildings through a maintenance grant system, allowing for upkeep of everything and covering R&M requirements.

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