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.

  • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz
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    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.

          • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz
            1·
            22 days ago

            Universities do more than churn out graduates, and they are not purely publicly funded.

            They mainly churn out graduates and the are mostly public funded.

            All graduates do not instantly go overseas,

            Most doctors and nurses do.

            Expecting other countries to accept exactly what you’re objecting to isn’t a good look either.

            I am objecting to spending tax dollars to build an institution that will not benefit us. I would urge other countries to do the same.