Hospital funding
Sir, — Recently, Buller residents faced the loss of a blood clinic, which makes their future none too sanguine. This draws attention to the issue of popula-tion-based hospital funding schemes. Such funding methods give little or no consideration to conditions of existence in isolated regions. The unabated quest for economic efficiency has led to the situation where it becomes more efficient to send a hearse to the scene of an accident since the victim would be unlikely to survive the ambulance journey to base hospital. Further, population centralisation is favoured. On this basis every South Islander should either sit patiently humming Sir Dove-Meyer Robinson’s refrain, "Don’t move to Auckland, Auckland is moving to you,” or take up long-distance swimming so as to attempt the Cook Strait crossing en route to Auckland. — Yours, etc., L. BROAD. Cape Foulwind, July 24, 1987.
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