Afternoon Edition: 22 July 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm railing Ramsay. This is your afternoon news
fixed for Monday for twenty second of July. The government's
replacing Health New Zealand's board with a commissioner citing a
significant deterioration in financial outlook. Senior political reporter Sophie Trekker hasmore.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Health Minister Schandretti said it first reported a decline in March.
He says the situation has worsened since then and it's
currently overspending at the rate of one hundred and thirty
million dollars a month. Forretti says without action, it would
lead to an estimated one point four billion dollar deficit
by the end of the financial year.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
A man's been charged with murder in relation to a
woman's death in Palmerston, North, Aliah Wilson was found critically
and had then died at a Featherston Street home last week.
A twenty seven year old man was arrested after a
police search in Highbury this afternoon. He's due to a
pear in the Palmeston North District Court tomorrow. A civil
construction expert says it's absurd to suggest road working contractors

(01:03):
are incentivized to maximize disruption. The claims being made in
a report commissioned by Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown. The Transport
Minister last week announced a review on temporary traffic management.
Civil Contractor's chief executive Alan Pollard says crews don't always
get it right, but they always prioritize safety.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I think it's really unhelpful to have conversations about cost
or incentives on the same breath as having a conversation
about safety. There's no way we're going to compromise a
safety in the workers.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
A woman whose misread smear tests led to an undetected
cancer has taken her experience to the Health and Disability
Commission to protect other women. Health n Z was found
in breach of the code after not telling the woman
about a repeated mistake for almost eight months. Emily Ansell reports.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
So cancer went unnoticed in twenty seventeen and twenty twenty
through human error before becoming terminal. Health and Disability Commissioner
Morag MacDowell says there was a lack of clear processes
around who was responsible for telling her about the errors.
She's recommending written apologies, and that health services involved review their.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Systems Australian authorities are studying CCTV from a Sydney train
station to understand how a father and child died when
a pram carrying twins rolled onto the tracks. The forty
year old jumped down in a rescue attempt and died
with a two year old girl. The second twin was uninjured.
Local Superintendent Paul Dunstan says tragedy struck when the family

(02:36):
stepped out of a station lift.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
They've taken their hands off the pram for a very
very short period of time and whether it's a gust
of wind or when not quite sure, but it appears
that the tram has instantly started to roll.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
In Sport, Hurricane's boss Avonlea has revealed Ardisavia's new contract
with New Zealand Rugby, which will see the loose forward
playing for more Ana Pacifica has the option of a
sabbatical from Super Rugby in twenty twenty six, much like
as Japanese didn't this year. Rugby legend Sir Brian Williams
believe Sarvia's moved to Moana will incentivize big name European

(03:10):
based Polynesian talent to also consider a move to Auckland
and Governor General Dame Cindi Kirol has headed to France
to be New Zealand's official representative at the Paris Olympics.
I'm Railian Ramsay and that is your latest news fix.
Will be back with the next update tomorrow morning from
the News talk S ed B newsroom