Larry Williams Drive

It was a sobering listen this morning hearing Kerre Woodham's callers list crisis after crisis after crisis in the Health and Education sectorsIt was nothing we didn't already know, we've been talking about this for decades.A lack of funding for training, l lack of funding for pay, iniquitous pay relativity which sees junior engineers receiving more money than a junior doctor for far less responsibility and hours. We set ourselves up for failure. And we've been doing it for years.It comes on the same day the New Zealand Women in Medicine survey of 900 clinicians is released.93.5 per cent saying we are in crisis with our healthcare workforce and with a conclusion that “we are at risk of a catastrophic collapse of the healthcare workforce".These are big structural problems that will be fixed over a time scale of decades, not years and the Government is putting aside billions for the process.But in between the big bad news you hear little stories of stupidity that could be fixed quickly and relatively cheaply.Th