Wow.
How humiliating for Labour!
Bonding Midwives and Nurses by effectively paying off their student debt in return for working in NZ for 5 years means that instead of training nursers and have them leave immediately overseas to pay off their debt, they will stay here!
We need to be offering far more bonding options for essential public services.
The Left should be championing this as an antidote to user pays education, and yet we are not!
How shameful that National is promising to do more rot solve the nursing crisis than all the Labour Party Policy in the world!
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These policies will be a winner .This is the second announcement of a policy that one would have expected from Labour.
It should not be about Left and Right. About Makin g common sense decisions for all new Zealand s. The Sam e rules should apply for the BESt teacher s.
But will their coalition partner ACT allow National to implement it?
Labour needs to bring back paid training for teachers and nurses (with bonding) and remove the need for student loans?
I am so old that I remember a time when the National Party inclined to social responsibility.
HOWEVER
First: Please remember it is an election promise – so maybe, maybe not.
Second: National need ACT to win the election and ACT members will have a tantrum if this actually happens.
ACT believes in well appointed, well equipped, well staffed, modern hospitals and schools only for those who can afford them.
There will be workhouses and charity medical barracks for the impoverished rabble.
How long do nurses train for and would “up to 4500 per year address the gap in annual salary compared to Australia, not to mention the difference in conditions (if that’s actually uniformly true)? I assume they must have factored that in.
Great policy I must say – I would have gone further and stated a higher pay for the extra hours they have to do for the lack of nurses to do the available shifts.
I listened to Dr Ayesha Verrall about this this morning and she stated she has been doing the equivalent without saying what that really was.
In reference to Dr Ayesha Verrall saying to speed up removing elderly in hospital beds by getting them to physio quicker I nearly choked on a coffee, if that is possible.
I have to wait 30 weeks for my first physio appointment in Dunedin for my knees.
Dr Ayesha Verrall tells the media about her ideas, but she should really look at the compounding failure first before mentioning it.
Dr Ayesha Verrall I’m sure you have the best intentions but you need to stop the bullshit. New Zealand can only put up with it for so long as we know we hardly have any Physios hence why they were put on the green list on the 12th April 2023.
Why you didn’t put them on the green list May 2022?
Speaking of bullshit, think Shane Reti…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nurses-sceptical-nationals-bonding-scheme-will-fix-shortage-offer-shouldnt-be-tokenistic/7WLYPZR3MBARFNND56BVYABFLM/
He used her report – but he did slant the direction of it – I hate how politicians use stats. However, he wasn’t my narrative.
“Slant the direction of”
Oh, you mean he lied.
In Whangarei FEES FREE TRADE EDUCATION HAS BEEN CANCELLED BY LABOUR THIS YEAR – and a generation of kids from poorer families are cut out of trade education. Go figure.
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