I’m exhausted to go to Health Management conferences and see the same questions being asked year after year, and watching the majority of people at the events trying to do their best without saying what they are thinking for fear of getting fired (given a large chunk of those attending are Health NZ / large corporates).
I don’t have that concern - my life is about pushing to try and improve systems - not to pillage the tax payer dollar to go buy my own island to retire to. I want to connect with people who want to see change and can actually go and do it - not put it down on paper while patting each other on the back and have it vanish into oblivion.
I want to be involved, I want to help, I want to achieve results - but all I seem to keep finding - is more people building concrete walls to stop people like me and continue with the insanity that currently exists.
As Mayou Angelo might remark - I like your sassiness Matt! Though I understand the companion requirement that a quantum of resilience is a useful additive to sustain journeys. I’m a fellow traveller who asks questions sparked by my curiosity, & as a retired person enjoy certain degrees of freedom, but am likewise constrained by some embedded assumptions that are never challenged, because they’re invisible to the script writers.
As the immortal Douglas Adams says ‘Don’t Panic’ - I challenge just about every embedded assumption It’s far easier to see the issues from the outside - and even more so when you deal with multiple ‘branches’ of Health NZ - (or possible even Districts) - we’ve watched the health system combine split, combine, split, combine again … Crown Health clearly worked last time right? From what I see from the outside - there is still no control over the systems inside of the branches - now they are just all doing it themselves - but on cut down staffing.. The whole system went the wrong way - cut staff - then look at what to consolidate? - how about - consolidate the systems - then cut the staff or have them doing more useful things - or heaven forbid - let some of their ideas bubble to the surface.. Ideas on improvements get buried every day - I speak to people on the coal face that see issues, and in alot of cases - how to either fix or help, but seem to be tied back with red tape and being worried if they rock the boat they’ll get thrown out…
