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MOH announcements on Healthcare Workforce Plan

In a media update on Monday 1 August Health Minister Andrew Little announced new plans to address the healthcare workforce concerns and shortages, wit...

NZSA Support NZWIM Letter sent to PM

Wednesday 13 July The New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists (NZSA) support the letter sent to PM Jacinda Ardern and Health Minister Andrew Little, amon...

President’s Blog – June 2022

President's Blog

It’s Monday morning, dark, torrential rain outside. Winter has well and truly arrived. It feels hard to get out of bed, so I am writing this whilst dr...

Plane

How do we reconcile international conferences and emissions from travel?

President's Blog

I have struggled to write this month’s blog. The chatter in my head fuelling my self-doubts and the feeling of imposter syndrome (who wants to read th...

Dr Sheila Hart

President’s Annual Report 2021

President's Annual Report President's Blog

'Advocacy, community and education are our key areas of work as we strive to strongly represent and support you, and to promote the perioperative safe...

ANZCA Position Statement on COVID

ANZCA has released a document: Living Guidance: Surgical Patient Safety in Relation to COVID-19 infection and vaccination. This document provides advi...

Smokefree Aotearoa Plan 2025 launched

Guided by the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the action plan will support Aotearoa’s goal of becoming smokefree by 2025. A bill is to be introduc...

Health reform legislation – NZSA submission

The Bill includes disestablishing our DHBs and replacing them with Health New Zealand and the Maori Health Authority. While we commended the aims of t...

NZSA supports declaring health workforce emergency and urgent Government action

The New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists (NZSA) supports the call of other health organisations, including the Association of Salaried Medical Special...

Implicit bias in healthcare

Learning modules on explicit and implicit bias in healthcare have been released by the Health Quality and Safety Commission. HQSC’s medical director D...