Newshub can reveal St John is drawing up a new agreement with Health New Zealand after it let a National MP tag along in night-time emergencies for three months.
The ambulance service has had a telling-off for allowing Dr Shane Reti into hospitals without its permission.
I always thought it was creepy that Shane Reti was allowed to gawk at the most personal and traumatised moments of an emergency.
What if he turned up at your medical emergency?
Do you really agree to be political fodder to the Opposition spokesperson?
It’s ghoulish and intrusive and all to make political point scoring.
National have pledged to slash public services while pointing at how broken our underfunded public services are!
It’s sophistry of the highest order to pledge slashing public services and then riding along to those undefunded services to denounce them!
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At least he pretends to care about the terrible state of the Emergency Rooms and hospitals in general!
The brand new public base hospital that I visit regularly is so understaffed that they are now charging General Practice fees to patients in the Emergency Room, cannot do basic surgeries because they do not hire enough surgeons, and cannot do the consultant specialist appointments they used to either. And it was already too small the day it opened, which was way behind schedule!
Saying you care and being willing to fix it are two very different things. National spent 9 years destroying it, so I won’t hold my breath believing promises that they would continue Labour’s efforts to rebuild it.
correct and he was in charge at whangarei DHB when sewagewas running down the inside of walls
You are talking shit. No public hospital will or can charge for providing care to New Zealanders. Don’t tell fucking lies. You must be going to a private operator who is probably fleecing you and the government.
Wrong. Grey Base Hospital made the charges, as reported in The Press.
OMG are you KF this stupid? Reti belongs to the government that created this dire situation and he does not give two fucks. He is one creeeepy guy, just look in his eyes. Creepy creepy yuk yuk guy. No question. And if he turned up at my door when I called an ambo, wow, I would press charges. Disgusting. What a creep, to joy ride with the ambo crew up and down the land and a dick to think he would be appreciated for doin that. Planet Earth ? Na he a lizard from No. 9. ..or you know, wherever
Lone Comet. This man sickens me. My first ambulance trip was in the aftermath of a lengthy agonising miscarriage. Being eyed by a cold political bastard like him would have added massively to my distress.
Seeing him now on television referring to patients like zoo specimens, is chilling. If he has been a practising gp, then I’d expect him to be more acquainted with the realities of life than he seems to be. God knows what he’s been doing. Occasionally one hears of politicians sitting quietly in an A&E observing the dynamics of what goes on there, but Reti’s is an unwarranted intrusion at a very personal level, which he had no right to be making. He’s another grubby opportunist using his doctorhood for political purposes, and he should be censured by the College of GP’s for grossly inappropriate behaviour.
He alone would stop me ever voting National, were I idiotic enough to consider doing so.
Rare Snow White W.
Reti want to impose US style healthcare in this country. He said in the last election that doctors should be able to pretty much charge what they like, so look forward to it costing the same amount to go to the doctor as it does to the dentist.
Only by getting out and about at the coal face will the most senior politicians ever realize what a basket case our country has become.
Fuki. Buillshiiiit comment you dumb ass wanker
Publicity stunt?
Reti is a very sincere and intelligent man. In fact, his main flaw aas a Politician is that he doesnt care for political bullshit and tends to go off the reseervation ‘trying to make things better’.
If National gets in (Anyone’s guess at the Mo) I do believe he will be the best Mnister of Health we have had in decades.
Well said Fantail
SO Fantail, does that mean you support US style healthcare in this country. Because he openly backs that system to the hilt, along with all the other National supporters.
At least he is a doctor and bound by code of ethics (as a doctor). Better than having some approved journalist or “prffssnl pblc srvnt” on board.
So publicity stunt it is then.
Nope. Ambulances are often emergency situations with vulnerable distressed persons on board, both adults and children, and the last thing that they should have to worry about is having some politician sitting there too.
The rest of the country knows what a dire situation our health service is in and Reti should know this without having to go ambulance stalking.
After all, his lot did their damndest to try and privatise a once extremely good national health service and to reduce patients with health issues into being customers. Stuff him.
No. He is a MD and as opposition health spokesperson he has every right to see the condition of our health sector.
And where are the complaints outside of the embarrassing health executives?
If he wasn’t Maori he could be reported to the Human Rights Commissioner for this, but because he is, he isn’t.
Ffs. He is a trained and registered Dr. I haven’t heard him reveal any patient details. He’s talking about staffing.
Good on him. Having listened to hm being interviewed Twice, he will make an amazing health minister
He will be amazing all right. Amazing at imposing US style health care. Every single National MP, member and voter see the US health system as a shining example of how health should be run in this country. They hate the idea of free healthcare, and want an insurance based system like what they have there. They are evil, and by extension so are you. You an evil woman Anker, and evil women who doesnt want people getting free healthcare.
LOL. After being in hospital recently I can say for sure under Labour these places have regressed to the third world. The only reason there hasn’t ben a complete collapse is the staff who are being forced to a gun fight with a blunt butter knife.
Perhaps you should just be grateful you dont live in the USA.
BS you dumbass
Tell that to the leaky Whangarei hospital he ran .
You are a very poor judge of people Anker
The problem is that Shane is shedding light at the third world state of medical care that this Government has caused over the last several years.
For example it now being routine that 111 services are requesting callers to transport themselves to hospital due to insufficient ambulances because they’re all still waiting at hospital A&Es as there are insufficient staff to accept the new arrivals.
Mr Nobody. There’s more to this than meets the eye. If a patient turns up at A&E under their own steam, they may or many not be admitted, and they can have a lengthy wait. If they arrive at hospital by ambulance, then they have to be admitted, and they get triaged promptly.
is that what you think? if you think that is what Reti was doing, well it’s disgusting.
I wonder how he would cope if a patient wanted to undertake a legal abortion or euthanasia or trans surgery?
What would his stance or advice be?
Would he be a tad uncomfortable perhaps?
I dont know and I am guessing you dont know either. Might be worth asking him Haty?
What an arrogant virtue signaller Dr Reti is. Respect, privacy, confidentiality, Bill of Rights transgressions, transgression of so much of the established western medical tradition, and he knows that. Even hospital doctors ask their patients permission for non-participatory persons to be present, but not, it seems, cold Shane Reti.
Standard process for a competent chief executive to visit the shop floor out of hours and talk to staff. In Reti’s case he actually treated some patients as a qualified medical practitioner as well
Given Parker is now doing a kamikaze run on the Labour party he will almost certainly be chief executive by November
SO how many people here support US style healthcare?
Doctor, care,, how abuse your party you.
Are you kidding me… ‘at least’ …. you REALLY need to check your dumb ass snobbery.
Doctors are not very well educated beyond their expetise and these ‘filter down’ ignorant GPs have way too much power over aspects of their patients lives they have NO experience to administer.
But administer they do.
They are very powerful.
Much more so than the police, who deal in the moment.
But who has more power to decide the fate of a person’s life overall, over the long run?
The doctor.
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