• Obsession with Hospitals is Hurting Us
  Tuesday, 17 August 2010 - Health Cheque
  The third leg of this series on getting more bang for bucks from the public health system requires raising the efficiency of delivery.
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• Our approach to booze has been pathetic
  Tuesday, 10 August 2010 - Health Cheque
  The health sector is overburdened by those who don't know how to look after themselves or don't give a damn.
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• Gareth on the cost of NZ's drinking habit
  Tuesday, 10 August 2010 - Health Cheque
   Gareth interviewed on Campbell Live on the cost of NZ's drinking culture.    
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• When Have We Done Enough?
  Saturday, 31 July 2010 - Health Cheque
  Geoff Simmons reflects on his Nana's passing and explores how in spending less trying to cure old age, we could afford to actually care for old people better in their last days, particularly those not blessed with large families.
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• It's Time for Medical Leaders to Step Up
  Tuesday, 13 July 2010 - Health Cheque
  GARETH MORGAN, DIRECTOR GARETH MORGAN INVESTMENTS Last week I outlined why the public health system, despite the best endeavours of the professionals who operate it, delivers to the public its services in an unfair and arbitrary fashion. The squeaky wheel syndrome, whereby those advantaged by havin...
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• Best Treatment Goes to the Loudest
  Tuesday, 6 July 2010 - Health Cheque
  The way the limited resources of our public health system are allocated across those in need is increasingly ad hoc and unfair.
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• NZ's elderly - whose responsibility is it to care?
  Thursday, 24 June 2010 - Health Cheque
  Gareth and Lesley Soper duke it out over health spending for the elderly.
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• NZ's Hardest Working Nurse is...
  Friday, 22 January 2010 - Health Cheque
  Despite being voted the country's hardest-working nurse, Stephanie Beddis thinks her role is more a vocation than a job.
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• Counting the Cost of the Health System
  Sunday, 29 November 2009 - Health Cheque
  Chris Laidlaw interveiws Gareth about Health Cheque.
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• This is Going to Hurt
  Saturday, 14 November 2009 - Health Cheque
  New Zealand does not earn enough to pay for the health system it wants, so it is time for some harsh decisions...
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