Health funding cut sparks community action
HEALTHY FIGHT: Debbie Leyland, left, and Mandy Winther who are battling for NUHS funding. PEOPLE angered by cuts to front line health services are taking their protest to the next Capital and Coast...
View ArticleNewtown group wants answers over health cuts
WANTING ANSWERS: Members of United Community Action Newtown demonstrate outside Wellington Hospital. A NEWTOWN community group is refusing to accept the health board’s silence over a funding cut to the...
View ArticleCampaign to stop health funding cut falls flat
TWO protests, a petition and several submissions have failed to stop a health funding cut to Newtown Union Health Service. About 60 people peacefully demonstrated a second time against the cut in...
View ArticleChild poverty doco maker gets behind health cuts fight
A “ME, ME, ME” society is pushing filmmaker Bryan Bruce to make a documentary looking at inequality in New Zealand. The Inside Child Poverty documentary maker told people via Skype at a public forum,...
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