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Health Industry Awards and
Benefit Gala Dinner 2008
Usually when the Charter is asking its Practitioner Members and Affiliates for support it is because there is another battle to be fought to retain our industry, the right to practice or teach or keep our freedom of choice. |
So when you are asked to support and come together for a celebration of our industry and its successes, surely you would jump at the chance – wouldn’t you?
It has come to our attention that most of the ticket sales are coming from the largest sector of the health industry – the consumers. That’s right your clients and their friends.
Come on people, please make an effort – pull out your glad rags, invest in rewarding yourself with a night out and support all the hard work that has gone into providing a platform to show that we are a unified strong professional industry.
You deserve it!
Or have we got it completely wrong?
Affiliate organisations – why don’t you make this your Christmas function – it is all organised for you and all you have to do is come and have a great time.
We are attracting a lot of interest from overseas, the Media and outside our industry questioning “how did we manage to attract such an impressive line up of performers for awards evening?” I tell them it is because we are such a powerful professional industry and that we are sharing our evening with a Charity Auction to fundraise for UNICEF’s work in PNG for the women and children with HIV and AIDS.
The huge pile of nominations we received for the Awards would indicate that you want to acknowledge and honour our outstanding colleagues. We have received over 1000% more nominations this year than previous Awards evening. Thank you to everyone who nominated one of your colleagues or in some cases several. The judging panel are not having an easy time. The finalists will be on the website on Tuesday 30th September
Looking forward to seeing you all there
Jenny Hammond
www.healthawards.co.nz
A personal message to all Chartered Practitioners and Affiliates
I have witnessed the enormous amount of work and hours that Jenny Hammond and Nigel Fowler of Synergy Events, on behalf of the Charter, have put in to plan and organise this celebration for our industry.
Please support this evening and celebration and come and pay tribute to those outstanding people in our industry who have dedicated much of their lives in helping others and the practitioners who follow behind them.
Thank you and see you there.
Paddy Fahy
For the last 60 or more years the New Zealand media has highlighted all of the so called golden bullets – medical breakthroughs – and during the same period denigrated and refused to publish any articles related to Natural HealthCare.
During the last three weeks this situation has changed dramatically with the surfacing in the news of problems relating to pharmaceutical medicine. Very strange when you realise that a large part of the media budget is obtained through pharmaceutical advertising and for the placement of articles for drugs that are the newest flavour of the month.
Stranger and stranger all this is happening when our government’s trusted administrators have mounted a campaign to prosecute and persecute Natural HealthCare Practitioners and Providers. Not only has there been an extensive “witch hunt” conducted by Medsafe, there has also been concentrated targeting, in conjunction with other countries in a world wide swoop, on health related websites.
The more serious situation is the test case promoted by the Commerce Commission against two practitioners (husband and wife) in a small but successful practice. Forty-three trumped up charges with the possibility of $600,000 dollars in fines for each of the practitioners. The interesting fact in this case is the American “Scam Buster” tactics employed in this case.
If by any miscarriage of justice the Commerce Commission is able to obtain a conviction in this test case it will then lead to an open slather attack on all Natural HealthCare Providers.
Since the 1960s the multinational pharmaceutical conglomerates have taken covert action to ensure that anti-Natural HealthCare legislation is instituted in most countries around the world in a campaign to entrench their monopoly of HealthCare with the serious consequence of gradually and stealthily abolishing all forms of Natural HealthCare.
In New Zealand we have been successful in holding back the Australian Therapeutic Goods Agency but our members need to be ever vigilant and prepared for continued attacks on the Freedom of Choice for consumers, we may have won a battle but it does appear that a far greater struggle is on the horizon.
Friday 19 September 2008
The American FDA has recently place a drug ban
The FDA's concerns involved alleged breaches of good manufacturing practice.
The New Zealand Ministry of Health has followed the American lead and has taken steps to ban further imports of 12 drugs three of which are funded by Pharmac and therefore widely used.
Independent research suggests that acetaminophen (paracetamol) reduces levels of glutathione in the lungs, a chemical necessary to protect airways from the damage of air and smoke pollution.
“Epidemiological evidence is growing that shows a link between Paracetamol and asthma,” study author Dr. Seif Shaheen told London’s Telegraph. “Since 2000, several publications have reported this association in the UK and the USA. We have also shown that asthma prevalence is higher in children and adults in countries with higher Paracetamol sales.”
All of this is in stark contrast to the New Zealand ministry's chief adviser on public health who has stated there was no evidence the drugs had caused any harm or were ineffective but at the same time suggested that a greater care be taken when using paracetamol.
Question
Will the Ministry’s action incorporate a Class One Recall as occurred with the Pan Natural Healthcare Products without any complaints of adverse reactions to any Pan Natural Healthcare Product only to a single Pan Pharmaceutical product, or will there be a whitewash as these are pharmaceuticals and not Natural HealthCare Products.
Only time will tell as the Ministry has commissioned testing of the drugs, to ensure that they conform to specifications an action that they failed to take before the massive Pan recall of what are now recognised as innocent products.
Or will this action result in a total cover-your-behind operation by an inefficient bureaucracy and a government that is dedicated to pharmaceutical/medical monopoly control?
In reality paracetamol should have been banned many years ago as its over-the-counter availability and subsequent overdosing has implicated this drug in a number of deaths – the ultimate adverse reaction.
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Till the next ezine take action to ensure your own health, vitality and wellness.
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