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Speaker 1: More health promises from the government. We now have a

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Speaker 1: three year plan for the public health system. It focuses

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Speaker 1: on reducing the impact of cancer, caardia, vascular and respiratory diseases,

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Speaker 1: and diabetes. There are also five specific targets for mental

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Speaker 1: health and addiction, including eighty percent of people accessing specialists

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Speaker 1: mental health and addiction services within three weeks and training

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Speaker 1: five hundred mental health and addiction professionals every year. The

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Speaker 1: Health Minister, Shane Retty is with us morning. I good

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Speaker 1: to speak with you and you too, big call. You're

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Speaker 1: up for it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. What we've done here with the government policy statement

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Speaker 2: is focused the direction for health and said very clearly

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Speaker 2: is what we do. We're going to improve life expectancy

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Speaker 2: and improve the qualitgue of life and here's how we're

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Speaker 2: going to do it timely, access to quality healthcare, workforce, infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: And then as you said, beneath that out are five percides,

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Speaker 2: five targets. That's what we do. Really clear, system can

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Speaker 2: focus on that, The accountabilities are clear, that's where the

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Speaker 2: good ship health is going.

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Speaker 1: Even if you load money in right now, how long

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Speaker 1: does it take to flow through on things like staffing.

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Speaker 2: What we've seen. We've projected our targets out to twenty thirty.

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Speaker 2: But as we start to bring staff up here now

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Speaker 2: and a good example would be a Totadahomou which I

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Speaker 2: opened yesterday, we're seeing people right now who are in

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Speaker 2: their pre op We need to go to surgery in

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Speaker 2: the next hour or two. It does take an orientation

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Speaker 2: time when you bring people on board, of course, but

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Speaker 2: you bring up the workforce and within months you start

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Speaker 2: seeing improvements.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the workforce comes from where you train them or

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Speaker 1: you bring them in.

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Speaker 2: Combination of both. The most immediate lever that you can

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Speaker 2: pull is immigration, but I'm absolutely committed to building our

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Speaker 2: own domestic pipeline. So it's a combination of both, along

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Speaker 2: with retention. We need to be able to retain those

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Speaker 2: who are here so that they're not leaking out the offshore.

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Speaker 1: On the mental health front, and it's not your fault

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Speaker 1: because you're new to the job, but we've heard the

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Speaker 1: mental health debate for years and years and years. What's

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Speaker 1: different this time?

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Speaker 2: Well, what's different this time several things. First of all,

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Speaker 2: we have a dedicated minister and Minister Doocy for mental health,

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Speaker 2: an absolute focus and a passion plus a train recorded

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Speaker 2: his previous life of working in mental health. That's significantly different. Secondly,

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Speaker 2: really strong targets which you'll talk to later in the week,

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Speaker 2: that brings a real focus and energy to mental health

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Speaker 2: and that's quite different.

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Speaker 1: We wish you well with it. Doctor Shane Retti, the

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Speaker 1: Minister of Health, with us this morning. For more from

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