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Grace Millar

New Zealand labour historian and Public Service Association policy advisor, lead author of the PSA's "Vacant by Design" report on hospital understaffing.

Oct 25, 2026

3:48
So can you give us a bit of the bigger picture here? How did we get into this situation?
3:54
So the biggest picture, to take a huge step back, the biggest picture and the most important thing is that health costs are going up and are going to continue to go up.
4:04
And there's two reasons for that.
4:05
One is the aging population, but the other is actually good and exciting, which is the developments in health.
4:12
So, for example, there are all sorts of conditions where maybe previously there would be one treatment or no treatment, and now there are multiple treatments or multiple treatments options.
4:22
And so what that means is that people are living longer, they're living better lives, all those sorts of things, but that does cost more.
4:29
So the health system is going to have and will continue to cost more.
9:17
Can you explain what you found?

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