News Article: Health NZ commissioner Lester Levy promises frontline positions won’t be cut - but warns of fast, painful reform
“The clinical frontline is key to helping ensure faster and easier access to healthcare for people, wherever they live. The clinical frontline will not be cut or reduced, and our plans are to strengthen it.
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This quote from the article deeply concerns me. Anyone who has watched what has happened to the NHS in the UK would know that the changes there have proven disastrous.
Levy cited an example he saw while in the United Kingdom, where two hospitals had decided that one would specialise in cardiac surgery, and the other oncology/cancer, instead of the old model of both being done at each hospital.
