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Warwick Bagg: Auckland University Dean of Medical and Health Sciences on the record number of people studying health courses · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Record number of kiwis deciding to go into the health workforce.
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  Speaker 1: At the moment, fifty thousand people are currently studying some
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  Speaker 1: form of healthcare at university. This is the higher since
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  Speaker 1: records began in twenty sixteen. Nursing enrollments up fourteen percent
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  Speaker 1: since then, the industry students up forty one percent since then.
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  Speaker 1: Warwick bag Auckland University, Dean of Medical and Health Science,
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  Speaker 1: is joining me live Warrick.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: How are you yeah, very well? What are you thinks
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  Speaker 1: driving that well?
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  Speaker 2: I think we have to see in the context that
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  Speaker 2: the broader increasing students across all sectors of the university.
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  Speaker 2: Last year in twenty twenty five, we grew by about
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  Speaker 2: seven percent and a further three percent this year, so
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  Speaker 2: that's certainly part of it is a border increase in
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  Speaker 2: tertiary education. I also think it's an enormous opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: students to join the health workforce. They've heard about the need,
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  Speaker 2: there's a great interest. Healthy is the largest employer across
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  Speaker 2: the country, and so I think there's great opportunities for
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  Speaker 2: students in diverse roles to contribute to our health workforce.
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  Speaker 1: Well, do you think people are joining because they really
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  Speaker 1: want to do work in health or because, as you say,
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  Speaker 1: it is a safe career, Like you know, we're always
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  Speaker 1: going to need a nurse no matter what the economy
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  Speaker 1: is looking like.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a bit of both of that, Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a privilege to be able to deliver
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  Speaker 2: healthcare in New Zealand, and I think lots of people
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  Speaker 2: are highly motivated to be I want to be a
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  Speaker 2: part of that system. There's no doubt that professions that
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  Speaker 2: require that human to human interaction are those professions which
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  Speaker 2: are going to be attractive for the long term. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think that's certainly an element of it. But
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  Speaker 2: there'll be people on the way to work listening to
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  Speaker 2: your radio station this morning who are heading into an
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  Speaker 2: early start, and you know that's what drives their passion
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  Speaker 2: is to look after people. I'll be in clinicless after then,
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  Speaker 2: meeting with patients, looking after people. That's what drives our
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  Speaker 2: passion to be in this profession.
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  Speaker 1: And you're actually doing something practical. That's what I've always
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  Speaker 1: liked about health and appreciated about health. We'll go to university,
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  Speaker 1: study all this nonsense and then go and do a
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  Speaker 1: job that no one really understands what it is. Health
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  Speaker 1: practitioners are actually doing something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah again right, It's an enormous privilege to be able
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  Speaker 2: to sit down with a person, work through what their
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  Speaker 2: particular concern is and come up with a solution. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, for all of the challenging stories we hear
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  Speaker 2: about our health system, we actually have a really fantastic
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  Speaker 2: health system that provides excellent outcomes. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 2: are really unwell today, there's only one place you want
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  Speaker 2: to be, it's within our public health system. You will
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  Speaker 2: get great care. And it's an enormous privilege to be
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  Speaker 2: able to educate folks for working in that system and
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  Speaker 2: to be a part of working in that system.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate your time this morning. Warwick bag Alton University,
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  Speaker 1: Dean of Medical and Health Science. For more from Early
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