Policy Overview

United Future Will:

• Ensure Ministerial appointments to District Health Boards include representatives of ordinary families and those with an understanding of the many subgroups within a community and/or a health or medical background.

• Commit to publicly funding 80% of primary health expenditure

• Support the concept of a public hospital model and ensure that the Public Health Service assumes the key role in the provision of vital health services, such as complex surgery and high technological operations and procedures.

• Define management codes of practice and proper consultation procedures between management and medical professionals.

• Ensure that the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, together with the Immigration Service, acts as the final arbiter of the standard of overseas medical qualifications. It is essential this issue is resolved to ensure qualified medical professionals can contribute to New Zealand in a constructive way as soon as practicable

United Future Parliamentary Office: Bowen House, Lambton Quay, Wellington
Email: Phone: (04) 471 9410