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Casey Costello: Associate Health Minister discusses focus on aged care reform · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The government's finally making moves on aged care reform. There's
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  Speaker 1: almost a million of US aged over the age of
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  Speaker 1: sixty five. New Ministerial Advisor group being set up looking
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  Speaker 1: at the funding model, looking at how to get more beds.
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  Speaker 1: Casey Castale is the Associate Health Minister with me this morning. Minister,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, good morning. Right, So how long will this
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  Speaker 1: review take?
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  Speaker 2: We want very short timeframes, so I'm hoping to get
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  Speaker 2: the report back from the group by the middle of
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  Speaker 2: next year so that we can be looking at what
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  Speaker 2: that implication is for budget twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: How many beds are we short?
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the problem that we've got is we
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  Speaker 2: keep talking about age care as a bed problem and
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  Speaker 2: we have about thirty four thousand older New Zealanders living
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  Speaker 2: in age recidentral care at the moment, but we have
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  Speaker 2: over nine hundred thousand over sixty five in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: So this is about the developing a system that allows
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  Speaker 2: care to be integrated, to be able to deliver in
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  Speaker 2: home care the right care the right place, and our
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  Speaker 2: model doesn't allow for that transition from care, doesn't support
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  Speaker 2: investment in the in home care, and all of the
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  Speaker 2: leavers that we can pull to allow people to live
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  Speaker 2: well where they choose to live for as long as possible,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what we're trying to achieve.
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  Speaker 1: So you want the money to follow the needs of
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  Speaker 1: the person we want.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be able to put the care at
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  Speaker 2: the heart of this and this is when you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: earlier about Australia. This is about what is the right
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  Speaker 2: care where you need to live, where it needs to
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  Speaker 2: be delivered. And this is the problem that you hear
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  Speaker 2: repeatedly is the access to care, the type of care
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  Speaker 2: you need, where you need it. And we know that
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  Speaker 2: most people want to be able to stay at home
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  Speaker 2: for as long as possible, and with the right care,
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  Speaker 2: we can deliver there and take some pressure off this
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  Speaker 2: concept of more and more beds. You know, we have
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  Speaker 2: a care system that is publicly funded but privately delivered
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  Speaker 2: and so this is what we need to do is
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  Speaker 2: understand those that are delivering the services and that's what
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  Speaker 2: we're hoping with the Ministererial Advisory Group is technical people
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  Speaker 2: that know what is needed in this system.
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  Speaker 1: Menisa, if you're rich, should you be expecting to pay
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  Speaker 1: more for aged care? After you're done and dusted with all.
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  Speaker 2: This I think the reality is now, the way our
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  Speaker 2: funding model is set up, that's what's occurring. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we have premium bed rates, we have occupational rights agreements
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  Speaker 2: for care, we have a range of systems that is
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  Speaker 2: making that a cure now. And this is why we
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  Speaker 2: need to have some really honest conversations about how is
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  Speaker 2: this being structured and ensure that those that need it
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  Speaker 2: most are getting the right care.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, got any reaction to Labour's capital gains tax announcement?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, as a New Zealand first MP, I can
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  Speaker 2: can imagine it's not something that we're going. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: is a great idea. So yeah, that was a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a shocker this morning, but I suppose we sort
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  Speaker 2: of knew it was coming. So we'll see what this
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  Speaker 2: all out is from here there. Other policies haven't been
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  Speaker 2: so successful, so we'll see how it goes. Case.
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  Speaker 1: Who is with us this morning? Associate Health? For more
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