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NZSA President Dr Morgan Edwards

Hinga atu he tētē kura, ara mai he tētē kura

News President’s Blog

October 2022 In 2016 I felt fortunate and humbled to be offered the deputy trainee representative position on the NZ Society of Anaesthetists Executiv...

26 October 2022

President’s Annual Report 2022

President's Annual Report

Ngā mihi nui kia koutou katoa, To begin I would like to acknowledge those who continued to front our Covid response and the support we have seen among...

23 October 2022

Final blog – where has the time gone?

President’s Blog

August 2022 My final blog! Where have those two years gone? It has been a rather constrained two years as President. My first and only face-to-face AS...

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...

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...

Wellness toolkit for anaesthetists

The Long Lives, Healthy Workplaces toolkit has been designed for anaesthesia departments to support good mental health and prevent mental ill-health a...

Mental ill health – how do we better support our colleagues?

President’s Blog

I’m looking out over the Pahia coastline writing this blog. I have been at the Cultural and Leadership Hui organised by ANZCA NZNC this weekend in Wa...

WFSA Distinguished Service Award – Dr Sereima Bale

Dr Bale was a senior lecturer in anaesthesia at the University of Fiji for over 20 years, where, amongst many other accolades, she was responsible for...