Combined meeting to discuss GHW health service cuts

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 13, Issue 592, 27 June 1995, Page 1

Combined meeting to discuss GHW health service cuts

Representatives of the Waimarino Community Health Taskforce were to take part in a special meeting in Wanganui yesterday afternoon to discuss the implications of the recently-announced Good Health Wanganui cuts. The meeting was organised by the Wanganui District Council and its mayor Chas Poynter. Among the Waimarino representatives were to be Ruapehu mayor Garrick Workman. At the meeting were to be representatives of GHW, the chairman of the management team of the Central Regional Health Authority, Rangitikei mayor John Wilson, as well as members of parliament including Paul East, the minister of crown health enterprises, although at the time of going to press it was probable that the MPs would not be present as there was a no-confidence vote in the house ^

likely to be called. Mr Workman said he was aware that the

Central Regional Health Authority had not ^

received formal notification of the cuts

by GHW, which it appears would

include the downgrading of

Waimarino's new rural

health centre to little

more than a clinic.

Hesaidonce

they had

r e -

ceived formal notice the RHA would determine its

reaction.

It was at that stage that the Waimarino

should act, he said.

"We' ve (the people of the Waima-

rino) done everything right

throughout all the health re-

forms. We are not go-

ing to move any

further," he

promised.