Posts by Hilary Stace
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Good idea, but how do you quantify and put a monetary value on, for example, being a chairperson of a committee, a board member, helping with a holiday programme, answering phone calls, giving talks to schools or community groups, driving people to events, attending meetings, filling out fundraising application forms, selling raffle tickets, or holding a collecting bucket? All of which could take from a few minutes to several days, and be regular or one offs.
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But it does seem likely to me that patient practices were considerably improved in the wake of the Cartwright report.
Russell, this is an understatement. In your recent hospital experience, you would have been addressed by name, had procedures explained to you, had to sign consent, and had Health and Disability Commissioner ethical codes and complaints procedures prominently displayed. You would not have had a consultant and medical students discussing your 'case' and proding your unclothed body without them asking you first.
If there was a clinical trial or research project underway in the hospital (and there are lots of these happening all the time) for which you were eligible, you would have had the project explained to you, been given an easy to understand information sheet and told what will happen with the data or tissue (and been reassured that there was no compulsion to join the study and that you could withdraw at any time). You would have to sign consent, and given contact details for any ongoing questions or concerns.
This research project would have been approved by one of the Ministry of Health's regional ethics committees, all of which have significant consumer representation. Any serious adverse effects on patients arising during the research would also have to be reported to them.
This has all happened in the last 20 years as a result of the Cartwright report.
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Our board (of voluntary board members) had a full-day board meeting yesterday and discussed the implications of this spotlight on KidsCan and the general current scrutiny of charities on our own organisation. Although we are mainly a volunteer organisation we do have some paid staff, and staffing and the associated infrastructure require significant and time consuming fundraising. However, providing effective and sustainable services does have a cost and we talked about how to make this information more accessible and transparent for members, donors and the public. And how records could acknowledge more of the voluntary labour and donated goods which are not usually recorded.
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That must happen at New Worlds all over NZ as that is what it is like at Thorndon New World. Regular collectors there and once a year I stand there too (we don't use a table). You get a really sore back and sore arms but it is a good opportunity to observe humans, and try and predict who will be the next donor. More likely to be the young, the old, the non-suited and the lower socio-economic.
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The Charities Commission was set up a couple of years ago to shine some light on the charity sector in NZ as there was very little data. No one had any idea how many there were out there and what they did. All the CC require is some basic information about each organisation in return for a registration number (and they are also very helpful). However, even this timid start was heavily criticised in that whole nanny state stuff, so to ask more info or to try more regulation was unlikely in that environment.
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Hot information from the Charities Commission as a response to all this.
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Russell said we could post anything today so here is nice little local music clip instigated, produced, directed and posted on Youtube by Joe, the boy on the left.
Joe and Phil play the blues -
Craig, you expect to be asked for your consent? You mean the doctor has to ask your opinion, not just reassure you in a kindly manner that he knows best so you don't have to worry your pretty little head.
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Charlotte Paul wrote an editorial for the NZ Medical Journal 26 November 2004 on the state of cervical screening in NZ and its history including Dr Green's role, and the same issue also included an assessment by two clinicians, Jones and Fitzgerald on NZ's 50 year history of cervical cytology.
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I hear the Delancey Street Restaurant, staffed by ex-convicts, is pretty good.