#NZHealthCrisis NZ MPs: "Are you willing to live in the world THAT YOUR POLICIES CREATE? ... It's a leadership standard... We're just asking for some level of moral alignment... If it's not good enough for their loved ones to use the public system, then it's not good enough." Koinā te kōrero! #nzpol
colour photo of people at a healthcare workers protest. one person holds a large white sign: "Every disaster movie starts with the government ignoring a senior doctor"
colour photo of people at a healthcare protest. one sign says: "Don't bite the hand that wipes your bum! Safe staffing NOW! A fully funded healthcare system under a National govt? Mate you're dreaming."
"Every disaster movie starts with the government ignoring a senior doctor" 🔥
"Don't bite the hand that wipes your bum! Safe staffing NOW! A fully funded healthcare system under a National govt? Mate you're dreaming" 🎯
📷 @pumpkinsintrees AKL City Hospital #MayDay #MarangaAke #NZHealthCrisis #nzpol
colour photo taken on a sunny day outside on the footpath. a person holds a big white sign: "Health worker. Born to perform."
colour photo of a line of smiling people standing on the footpath, holding signs, eg. "Invest in our health".
photo of a large white corflute sign. written on it in black felt pen: "ciga RETI" = "code BROWN". BAD for Health NZ"
May 1 #NZHealthCrisis #FightBackForHealth #MarangaAke
Photos shared by @garypayinda.bsky.social Whangarei
screenshot from IG @ponekeantifa on 1 May 2025. "SOLIDARITY WITH 5500 SENIOR DOCTORS + NEARLY 1000 SUPPORT WORKERS AND 340 NURSES ON STRIKE. THEY ARE SICK &TIRED OF AN UNDERSTAFFED HEALTH SYSTEM. An underfunded health system increases the waiting lists every week, with more than 180 000 people waiting for their first specialist appointment and 40% of these waiting more than 4 months. These strikes demand our public health system is fully funded and staff are treated fairly and with dignity - so everyone has access to the care they need. This is the first time in 20 years that home support workers have voted to strike. The fact that Access workers are all taking industrial action alongside senior doctors and perioperative nurses really highlights how broken the system is. Why is this an anti-fascist issue? Fascism is about attacking the collective power of working people to demand better conditions. It is the consolidation of wealth & power for those at the very top. For our health system, these attacks means those who can pay get seen, and those who can’t, wait.... and die."
"This is the first time in 20 years that home support workers have voted to strike. The fact that Access workers are all taking industrial action alongside senior doctors and perioperative nurses really highlights how broken the system is."
💯 @ponekeantifa.bsky.social on 1 May 2025
➡️ "This is the first time in 20 years that home support workers have voted to strike. The fact that Access workers are all taking industrial action alongside senior doctors and perioperative nurses really highlights how broken the system is." #NZHealthCrisis
screenshot from IG @nznursesorganisationnz on 30 April 2025. photo taken inside a brightly lit operating theatre. 17 medical professionals in blue scrubs stand or sit together, holding large white signs: Pay our Pay! Fight For Right Pay, Fair Wages At All Stages, No to Forced Overtime, No nurse should work overtime for free!
#NZHealthCrisis "Won't fight this government lying down (in most cases 😅) Auckland City Hopsital Level 9 Perioperative team ready for Tomorrow! #PayUsRight" @nznursesorganisation 8pm, 30 April
💯 TAUTOKO the nurses & doctors striking tomoro #FightBackForHealth ✊ all rallying tomoro #FightBackTogether
#NZHealthCrisis Health professions want to retain ability to set & uphold high standards of care. But to #CoC "upholding standards of care requires meaningful investment in healthcare - so why do that when you could simply lower standards?" @reneeliang.bsky.social northandsouth.co.nz/2025/04/23/p...
Cheers, Beckie! Gary said he intended to join Dr Glenn and Dr Art when the #HīkoiForHealth arrives in Whangarei tomorrow (Sunday). It'll be fantastic to have those guys get together eh ✊ #NZHealthCrisis #FightingBack
#HīkoiForHealth in Kaitaia #NZHealthCrisis
poster: New Plymouth. Te Whare Hononga, Taranaki Cathedral - 39 Vivian Street, New Plymouth. Monday, May 5th, 10am - 12pm.
#HīkoiForHealth MONDAY 5 May 🚑 New Plymouth
GP poets Glenn and Art would love to meet and hear from you! Come share your thoughts about the current state of the NZ health system and what you'd like to see change #NZHealthCrisis
poster: Flaxmere Community Centre - 400 Swansea Road, Flaxmere, Hastings. Saturday, May 3rd, 10am - 12pm.
#HīkoiForHealth SATURDAY 3 May 🚑 Hastings
GP poets Glenn and Art would love to meet and hear from you! Come share your thoughts about the current state of the NZ health system and what you'd like to see change #NZHealthCrisis
poster: Gisborne. Manawaru Cafe (Turanga Health) - 675 Childers Road, Elgin, Gisborne. Friday, May 2nd, 11am - 1pm.
#HīkoiForHealth FRIDAY 2 May 🚑 Gisborne
GP poets Glenn and Art would love to meet and hear from you! Come share your thoughts about the current state of the NZ health system and what you'd like to see change #NZHealthCrisis
poster: "It's only a matter of time before you need healthcare. Our New Zealand health system is in CRISIS. The government must act now to fix it. MYLIFEMATTERS.ORG.NZ 022 097 5899 mylifemattersNZ@gmail.com PUBLIC MEETING ON THE STATE OF GISBORNE HOSPITAL AND HEALTHCARE. SPEAKERS: Malcolm Mulholland Chair, Patient Voice Aotearoa. Dr Alex Raines, Gisborne Hospital. Dr Art Nahill, Hikoi for Health. Dr Glenn Colquhoun, Hikoi for Health. Come and hear from patients, doctors, nurses, and specialists, about the state of the health system in your community and nationally. Everyone is affected and we need a well-functioning health system. Gisborne. House of Breakthrough Church, Corner Lytton Rd and Ormond Road, Riverdale, Gisborne. Thursday 1 May 7:00pm - 8:30pm. www.mylifematters.org.nz/roadshow"
#HīkoiForHealth THURS 1 May 🚑 Gisborne
MAY DAY #FightBackTogether Day of Action #MarangaAke #NZHealthCrisis
In collaboration with Patient Voice Aotearoa and Malcolm Mulholland (Ngāti Kahungunu), Art Nahill & Glenn Colquhoun of #HikoiForHealth will speak at an additional hui in Gisborne, 7pm-8.30pm
#HīkoiForHealth WEDNESDAY 30 April 🚑 Whakatāne
GP poets Glenn and Art would love to meet and hear from you! Come share your thoughts about the current state of the NZ health system and what you'd like to see change #NZHealthCrisis
poster: Te Kohao Health Clinic - 951 Wairere Drive, Hamilton. Tuesday, April 29th, 12pm -2pm.
#HīkoiForHealth TUESDAY 29 April 🚑 Kirikiriroa Hamilton
GP poets Glenn and Art would love to meet and hear from you! Come share your thoughts about the current state of the NZ health system and what you'd like to see change #NZHealthCrisis
poster: Central Auckland. The Cricket Pavilion in Auckland Domain. Monday, April 28th, 10am - 12pm.
poster: South Auckland. Manurewa Marae Health Clinic - 81 Finlayson Avenue, Clendon Park, Manukau City. Monday, April 28th, 2pm - 4pm.
#HīkoiForHealth MONDAY 28 April 🚑 Tamaki Makaurau
GP poets Glenn and Art would love to meet and hear from you! Come share your thoughts about the current state of the NZ health system and what you'd like to see change #NZHealthCrisis
poster: Whangārei. Hihiaua Cultural Centre. 56-58 Herekino St. Sunday April 27th, 11am - 1pm.
#HīkoiForHealth SUNDAY 27 April 🚑 Whangārei
GP poets Glenn and Art would love to meet and hear from you! Come share your thoughts about the current state of the NZ health system and what you'd like to see change #NZHealthCrisis
screenshot from IG @hikoiforhealth. a colour map illustration of Te Ika A Maui / North Island of NZ. 13 locations are marked with red pins, those being the places where the Hīkoi For Health will be stopping to meet and kōrero with people about the dire state of the NZ health system.
colour photo of a converted ambulance parked on the roadside, green grass in the background and a cloudy blue sky above. two Pakeha men GP doctors stand in front of their converted 'vanbulance', smiling at the camera and giving thumbs up and the peace sign.
GPs & poets Glenn Colquhoun & Art Nahill are on the road, excited to begin meeting you on the #HīkoiForHealth 26 April - 8 May. Starts on Sat: Kaitaia and Kerikeri. Sunday: Whangarei. Monday: Auckland Domain, then Manurewa Marae Health Clinic. Itinerary healthreformnz.org Come along! #NZHealthCrisis
#HīkoiForHealth Woohoo, we held the blessing for our vanbulance yesterday and are heading for Northland today - before starting the hīkoi on Saturday in Kaitaia. Honk if you pass us! #NZHealthCrisis #PeoplesInquiry
#HealthReformNZ #Aotearoa
#NZHealthCrisis A 6mth roadshow around Aotearoa. Mulholland summarised what he observed: "Stressed out was probably an understatement... Before I started the roadshow I thot our health system was in crisis but from what I can see, it's collapsing before our very eyes" 💥 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
#NZHealthCrisis where will you be at lunchtime on 1 May to join May Day rallies and tautoko doctors Strike❗
@chloeswarbrick 20 April 2025
www.together.org.nz/may_day_hui
#NZHealthCrisis Patient Voice Aotearoa (led by Malcolm Mulholland, Ngāti Kahungunu) also have a space for us to share ⬇️ "This is a place for you to speak honestly about the issues and challenges you've faced, and the changes you'd like to see." www.mylifematters.org.nz/post/share-y...
#NZHealthCrisis ACTIONS we can take online, and that are available to those of us surviving with disability #LongCovid, ME/CFS, MH issues, etc
1) what Gary said ⬇️
PLUS 2 forums set up so we can share health system experiences & ideas:
2) #HīkoiForHealth website
3) Patient Voice Aotearoa website
#NZHealthCrisis ACTIONS we can take:
MAY 1st - go to our local hospital with signs in support of doctors, nurses, all healthcare workers! ✊
Meet up with the #HīkoiForHealth in your town btwn 26 April - 8 May healthreformnz.org
MAY 8th - tautoko #HīkoiForHealth when they arrive at Parliament
#NZHealthCrisis
from NZ Nurses Organisation IG
"Hands around Nelson Hospital" #SafeStaffing #NeedANewHospital go you good people ✊
hate that you have to do this, and keep on doing it
#NZHealthCrisis Regarding doctors strike on 1 May,
@garypayinda.bsky.social (16 Apr)
"What other option do we have?" 💯 All healthcare workers in Aotearoa would dearly LOVE another way to get heard and see change occur. It's a crisis. NZ is 2500 docs & 3000 nurses short www.tiktok.com/@garypayinda...
"The State of the NZ Health System. Public meeting - Hamilton. Chair, Patient Voice Aotearoa, Malcolm Mullholland. Come and hear from patients, doctors, nurses and specialists about the state of the health system in your community and nationally. Everyone is affected and we need a well-functioning health system. Hamilton, YMCA Hall, 28 Pembroke St, Cnr Clarence and Pembroke Streets. Thursday 17 April, 7:30pm - 8:30pm."
⭐ Kirikiriroa Hamilton, THURS 17 April, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
#NZHealthCrisis "Come and hear from patients, doctors, nurses and specialists about the state of the health system in your community and nationally. Everyone is affected."
YMCA Hall, 28 Pembroke St, Cnr Clarence and Pembroke.
"The State of the NZ Health System. Public meeting - Auckland. Chair, Patient Voice Aotearoa, Malcolm Mullholland. Come and hear from patients, doctors, nurses and specialists about the state of the health system in your community and nationally. Everyone is affected and we need a well-functioning health system. Auckland, Te Manawa, 11 Kohuhu Lane, Massey. Wednesday 16 April, 6:30pm - 8pm. RSVP required via Facebook."
🚨 AKLD, WED 16 April, 6:30pm-8pm #NZHealthCrisis
Kōkiri Ngātahi room, Te Manawa, 11 Kohuhu Lane, Massey
NZ Nurses, Waitematā Hui for Health: "West & North Aucklanders, join us for community hui on state of crisis in our health system"
maranga-mai.nzno.org.nz/waitemata_hu...
+ Patient Voice Aotearoa
can i suggest adding ACTION to posts? if reposting @garypayinda.bsky.social article, add HOW people can meet one another & attend Patient Voice Aoteaora events. #NZHealthCrisis articles are deeply depressing, leave us deflated & change nothing. so add Gary's ideas! pots & pans outside a MP's office.
photo of an exhausted healthcare worker in blue scrubs and a face mask, sitting on the floor looking shattered. text: "My Life Matters. It's only a matter of time before you need healthcare. Our New Zealand health system is in crisis. The Government must act now to fix it. mylifematters.org.nz"
a #NZHealthCrisis roadshow has been touring Aotearoa for 3wks. who knew? NO MEDIA COVERAGE.
Final 3 roadshow dates:
📢 Dargaville TUES 15th April
📢 Auckland WED 16th
📢 Hamilton THURS 17th
www.mylifematters.org.nz
FB 'patientvoiceaotearoa'
@garypayinda.bsky.social spoke at Sunday's Whāngarei event...
