Health care ‘parochial’
PA Dunedin Resources for health care are too expensive to duplicate to satisfy solely parochial interests, said Professor G. L. Brinkman, associate dean of post-graduate affairs at Otago University at a seminar in Dunedin.
Resources such as C.A.T. X-ray scanners should be shared among hospital boards, he said at a health services seminar.
“Too often one board will say when another obtains a new piece of equipment, that their patients are taxpayers too and they want the best possible care as well,” Professor Brinkman said. “We don’t have enough people in New Zealand to reduplicate skills or equipment and yet it is happening right before our eyes.
“The parochial approach is damaging our resources,” he said.
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