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Warwick Bagg: Auckland University Professor on the new training placements, advanced education for nurses · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So it's been a big week of health announcements. We've
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  Speaker 1: got the doctors one, now we've got another one. The
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  Speaker 1: government's increasing the number of training places for nurse practitioners
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  Speaker 1: specializing in primary care to one hundred and twenty a year.
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  Speaker 1: Is also supporting advanced education for up to one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty registered nurses. Professor Warwick bag is the Dean
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  Speaker 1: of Medical and Health Sciences at Orkhan University. He's got
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  Speaker 1: up early for us. Good morning to your Warwick.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Andrew. Wonderful news, isn't it? Is it enough?
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  Speaker 1: Will it make a difference?
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  Speaker 2: Of course it will make a difference, Andrew. The Minister
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  Speaker 2: has touched on all of the important points to improve
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  Speaker 2: the numbers of healthcare workers in New Zealand. He's announced
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  Speaker 2: nurse practitioner training, particularly in primary care. He's upstealing nurses
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  Speaker 2: in rural education. He has supported new locally trained doctors,
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  Speaker 2: and he's also making use of doctors that are already
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  Speaker 2: here or arriving in New Zealand and helping them to
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  Speaker 2: train to become general practitioners. So there's a range of
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  Speaker 2: solutions and the Minister injected money behind each of those solutions,
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  Speaker 2: which is really going to make a difference, some of
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  Speaker 2: those in the very near term, some of those in
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  Speaker 2: the longer term.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you appreciate and respect the Health Minister, which is
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  Speaker 1: of course, Simian Brown, is the war between the Health
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  Speaker 1: Ministry and all the practitioners can to an end.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I think as a university we delighted to be
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  Speaker 2: able to work with the Minister to help with their
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  Speaker 2: education of folks who want to be health professionals to
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  Speaker 2: meet New Zealand's needs. So we're definitely very delighted with
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  Speaker 2: their announcement and helping the sector get back on its feet.
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  Speaker 1: And because you're at the university, because you're training these people,
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  Speaker 1: are people coming to you for training? Do we have
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  Speaker 1: the raw materials that can be formed into a health sector?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Andrew. We've been absolutely delighted by the strength of
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  Speaker 2: all of our applications this year. We are well experienced,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a great track record, and we're really excited
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  Speaker 2: about the way we can do this education and the
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  Speaker 2: cost effective way we can do this education. So this
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  Speaker 2: is really a very good news story and delighted by
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  Speaker 2: the Minister's series of announcements.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, those people you're going to train are their
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  Speaker 1: jobs for them at the other end.
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  Speaker 2: So one of the challenges with new nursing graduates, that's
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  Speaker 2: been a particular challenge and something we need to keep
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  Speaker 2: working through and I know that TU New Zealand is
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  Speaker 2: committed to doing that. We seem to have no trouble
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  Speaker 2: in finding places for doctors to work, so that's really
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  Speaker 2: good news and with a focus on general practice, will
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  Speaker 2: really be strengthening that part of the equation. So I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a strong yes to you or answer with
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  Speaker 2: some attention, particularly to those areas around new graduate nurses.
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  Speaker 1: Well Wareck, thank you so much for your insight today,
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  Speaker 1: Professor Warwick bag from the University of Auckland.
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