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Robin Gauld, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean, University of Otago

NZ’s health system has been under pressure for decades. Reforms need to think big and long-term to be effective

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As New Zealand’s COVID cases rose in 2021, we were warned the virus would put significant pressure on our health system. But, in reality, New Zealand’s medical system has been struggling for a long time.

Over and over again, the media have put the spotlight on the struggling health-care system and the impact these issues have on individual patients and their families as well as, of course, staff.

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