The school aimed at producing more GPs to plug dire shortages, particularly in rural and regional areas.

The junior doctors’ union says a decision on the proposed Waikato Medical School is taking too long.

The Ministry of Health is progressing a business case and cost benefit analysis to decide if the $380 million school in Hamilton should go ahead.

It was working with the University of Waikato, which would be home to the country’s third medical school, and Health New Zealand.

The school aimed at producing more GPs to plug dire shortages, particularly in rural and regional areas.

Resident Doctors Association secretary Dr Deborah Powell said it was frustrating a decision had not been made already.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
      3·
      23 days ago

      It sounds like you’re trying to solve the root cause of problems. I don’t think that’s how politics works.

      • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz
        2·
        23 days ago

        I am not under the delusion that root cause of problems can be solved (presuming they can be determined in the first place). As long as we hold on tight to capitalism we will only treat the most superficial of symptoms.

          • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz
            2·
            23 days ago

            I am paying to build schools and pay teachers right?

            I don’t want to do “very good” for other people right now, I want to do “very good” for us first. We need this more than they do.

              • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz
                1·
                22 days ago

                Wow, you really missed the point didn’t you?

                Our tax dollars are going to build a school, and educate a generation of doctors who are going to immediately leave the country. That’s a waste of money. We are better off paying doctors from poor countries to immigrate here. It would be cheaper and we’d get already trained doctors right away.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
    1·
    24 days ago

    Interesting that this government has been “we can use urgency to skip due process because we campaigned on these things, people voted us in, so therefore the details are all perfect and don’t need scrutiny” and yet them campaigning on opening a new medical school didn’t get the same treatment.

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
      2·
      23 days ago

      Because how does a new medical school help the rich?

      If it isn’t tax cuts, then they are not interested