The Plight of Martyn Payne

Thinking about emigrating to New Zealand as an investor? On May 6 Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman announced that over $560 million in potential capital investment is poised to flow into the NZ economy and planned changes to the Government’s business migration scheme will increase investment further. source The Government’s business migration scheme offers two investment…

Bullying Rife In NZ Hospitals

The NZDoctor.co.nz website reported today on last night’s Wellington forum on the subject of burnout in the medical profession. Experts said that doctors in New Zealand aren’t good at giving each other the support and affirmation needed to avoid burnout. Furthermore, hospitals are rife with bullying Hospitals rife with bullying “A bullying culture exists at…

New Zealand’s Health System Plunges in Rankings

New Zealand has moved from first to fifth place in international health rankings of seven countries, carried out by the Commonwealth Fund The slide is  due mostly to issues of access, high costs preventing people from visiting doctors or filling prescriptions, safety and management of chronic illness and New Zealanders being the patients most likely…