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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.
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Oct 25, 2026
In Brief: Are New Zealand hospitals being deliberately understaffed?
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Ollie NeasHOST
So can you give us a bit of the bigger picture here? How did we get into this situation?
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3:54Grace MillarGUEST
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.
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4:05Grace MillarGUEST
One is the aging population, but the other is actually good and exciting, which is the developments in health.
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4:12Grace MillarGUEST
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.
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4:22Grace MillarGUEST
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.