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1991: The government decides to convert New Zealand's public health system to a free market, with hospitals competing against each other to create profits for shareholders. They ignore a barrage of public and professional criticism. Boards and managers, preferably with no healthcare knowledge, are appointed. And then the problems begin. 1992: Stephen Cassidy, a surgical trainee at Paxton Hospital, is burning out from the stresses of his job and now the departure of his beloved Zoe. He needs time off to reorganise his life and win her back. And while he's doing that, he could get a nice 9 to 5 job in hospital management ...
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Not Our Problem
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 267 pages. cover warped, writing on inside cover, page edge lightly foxedSteven Cassidy is burning out in his job as a surgical trainee at New Zealand ?s Paxton Hospital. He is working far too hard, exams are looming and he has b ecome so difficult to live with that his girlfriend Zoe has left him.Cass idy decides to take a year off to regain his sanity and try to win Zoe back. He gets a job in hospital management, expecting to help the organisation run better before he goes home at 5 pm every evening.But his timing is unfortunate: it?s 1992 and New Zealand?s public hospitals are being turned into competit ive businesses, driven by a government that believes that market forces are the solution to all problems.Cassidy battles with the managers who are trying to force the ideology to overcome the realities of public health care, as he wa tches relentless funding cuts having their effects on staff and patients. His expert advice is rejected and Zoe leaves, perhaps for ever . . . it?s time for Cassidy to take matters into his own hands.The characters are fictio nal but almost all the events are real, and incredibly, in 2015 there is discuss ion about repeating this disastrous experiment.?Let us hope that politi cians, policy makers, professionals and the general public read, enjoy, think de eply about and debate this book and never let another set of such ?health refo rms? happen in New Zealand or elsewhere.?From the introduction by Pro fessor Robin Gauld,author of Revolving Doors: New Zealand?s Health Reforms. Seller Inventory # 6917bb
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 267 pages. some pages lightly soiledSteven Cassidy is burning out in his job as a surgical trainee at New Zealand ?s Paxton Hospital. He is working far too hard, exams are looming and he has b ecome so difficult to live with that his girlfriend Zoe has left him.Cass idy decides to take a year off to regain his sanity and try to win Zoe back. He gets a job in hospital management, expecting to help the organisation run better before he goes home at 5 pm every evening.But his timing is unfortunate: it?s 1992 and New Zealand?s public hospitals are being turned into competit ive businesses, driven by a government that believes that market forces are the solution to all problems.Cassidy battles with the managers who are trying to force the ideology to overcome the realities of public health care, as he wa tches relentless funding cuts having their effects on staff and patients. His expert advice is rejected and Zoe leaves, perhaps for ever . . . it?s time for Cassidy to take matters into his own hands.The characters are fictio nal but almost all the events are real, and incredibly, in 2015 there is discuss ion about repeating this disastrous experiment.?Let us hope that politi cians, policy makers, professionals and the general public read, enjoy, think de eply about and debate this book and never let another set of such ?health refo rms? happen in New Zealand or elsewhere.?From the introduction by Pro fessor Robin Gauld,author of Revolving Doors: New Zealand?s Health Reforms. Seller Inventory # 6915bp
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