Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
30% of doctors leave NZ after graduation
Mōrena. Long stories shortest: The news this morning is dominated by the crises cascading through our health system after 20 years of being starved of funding and staffing in real, per-capita terms. Auckland’s Starship hospital is now without a paediatric palliative care specialist, meaning there is none at all in Aotearoa. Hundreds marched against cuts in services in Napier. Almost a third of doctors who graduate here migrate overseas within a decade.
(There is more detail, analysis and links to documents below the paywall fold and in the podcast above for paying subscribers. If we get over…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.