Budget 2017: Sad, cross, frustrated, disappointed: Reaction from the sector

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Budget 2017: Sad, cross, frustrated, disappointed: Reaction from the sector

New Zealand Doctor reporters
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This year’s Budget is not flush with new funding for health. New money for mental health and for the roll out of the bowel cancer screening programme are the big spending items. New Zealand Doctor staff seek feedback from the sector about what the Budget spending might mean for them

Health minister is a grand failure, says frustrated PHO boss, John Macaskill-Smith Health minister Jonathan Coleman has been a “grand failure” for the health sector and it’s reflected in the Budget this year,