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Hīkoi for Health: Doctors launch inquiry to address 'failing' health system

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sun, 27 Apr 2025, 11:22am
The colourful ‘ambulance’ doctors Art Nahill and Glenn Colquhoun will drive on the Health Hīkoi from Kaitāia to Parliament to urge the public and politicians to do more for our health system.
The colourful ‘ambulance’ doctors Art Nahill and Glenn Colquhoun will drive on the Health Hīkoi from Kaitāia to Parliament to urge the public and politicians to do more for our health system.

Hīkoi for Health: Doctors launch inquiry to address 'failing' health system

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sun, 27 Apr 2025, 11:22am

Sick of inaction from politicians around our ailing health system, two Kiwi doctors are taking matters into their own hands. 

GP Dr Glenn Colquhoun and general hospital physician Dr Art Nahill yesterday launched Hīkoi for Health: A People’s Inquiry.

They’ve hit the road in a bright yellow 'vanbulance' in a bid to protest the state of the health system - and collect stories from people who've been impacted by the health system.

"I've gradually seen conditions, both for patients and for healthcare providers, deteriorate - to the point where I didn't feel like I could bear anymore of what I would call moral injury from trying to treat and discharge patients in a broken system."

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