Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 14, 2021 16:53:16 GMT 12
Bob Edlin: IS THE RIGHT MEDICINE FOR NZ PHARMAC’S ETHNIC MIX OR THEIR PHARMACEUTICAL EXPERTISE?
Stuff delivered another woke-up call to its readers this morning with a report which presses Pharmac to hire more Maori.
There’s nothing in the article to convincingly explain how current staff ratios adversely affect Pharmac’s job of buying medicines or how they actually undermine the nation’s health.
The drug-purchasing agency’s “appalling” shortcomings instead relate to concerns about cultural inadequacies, systemic racism and a failure to meet Treaty of Waitangi obligations.
The on-line report is accompanied by a video of the PM facing questions about the government’s healthcare policy and its funding of Pharmac......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/01/bob-edlin-is-right-medicine-for-nz.html
Stuff delivered another woke-up call to its readers this morning with a report which presses Pharmac to hire more Maori.
There’s nothing in the article to convincingly explain how current staff ratios adversely affect Pharmac’s job of buying medicines or how they actually undermine the nation’s health.
The drug-purchasing agency’s “appalling” shortcomings instead relate to concerns about cultural inadequacies, systemic racism and a failure to meet Treaty of Waitangi obligations.
The on-line report is accompanied by a video of the PM facing questions about the government’s healthcare policy and its funding of Pharmac......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/01/bob-edlin-is-right-medicine-for-nz.html