Larry Williams Drive

Listen, I agree with the ACT Party that Health NZ needs to drop this nonsense of encouraging staff to incorporate a prayer into their daily routine.What is this? Are we living in the 6th century with the height of Christianity? This is very unmodern.Now, the reason we know about this is because the ACT Party's been leaked an email that was sent to staff that says: "We encourage everyone to incorporate Karakia daily. To help support you with this, we have created some pre-recorded videos to learn Karakia."Now, we don't know which staff are being encouraged, but let’s assume it's for everyone, because that's generally how organisations work when they roll something like this out - they roll it out to absolutely everyone.So let’s assume that this also involves doctors and nurses and surgeons and anaesthetists and so on. You been a hospital lately? Those people are run off their feet, they are so busy patients often have to wait half an hour - sometimes an hour - for a nurse to respond to something that they need