Monday, November 14, 2011

Shorter clinical waiting times and more medical professionals

National will further strengthen our health workforce to deliver New Zealanders the responsive and robust service they deserve.

In the past three years, an extra 800 doctors and 2000 nurses have been employed in our District Health Boards.

We will expand our successful Voluntary Bonding Scheme for health graduates to include medical radiation therapists, medical physicists, and other hard-to-staff areas as needed.

National will also expand rural training initiatives such as the Rural Immersion Scheme, to better support rural GPs and the rural health workforce.

National will work with clinicians to further reduce waiting times for important diagnostic tests such as CT scans, MRI scans, angiograms and colonoscopies.

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