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MPI finds no significant concerns over animal welfare at Lincoln University farm
Photo: SAFE/Supplied Following an animal welfare complaint, the Ministry for Primary Industries has visited Lincoln University's demonstration dairy farm. The complaint, raised by animal rights group SAFE (Save Animals From Exploitation), was regarding footage filmed earlier this month which it said showed animal suffering and squalid winter conditions. The footage showed calves piled into a trailer, a cow chased by a farmer on a quad bike, and animals left standing in mud. SAFE wrote to Lincoln University and laid a complaint with MPI. MPI confirmed an inspector visited the Lincoln farm last Friday, on the day the complaint was received. A spokesperson said they found no significant concerns regarding cows in mud and there was suitable ground available for the cows to lie and rest. Photo: They said they would continue to monitor the farm. Lincoln University professor Chad Hewitt said they will continue to comply with all requests. "Obviously, we've taken those issues to heart. We take our animal welfare obligations very seriously and are compliant with the wellbeing of all animals under our care. It's of the utmost importance. "We're committed to upholding the standards outlined in the New Zealand Animal Welfare Act and we treat the complaints with significance and with importance. "We've commenced our own review into the matters that have been raised." The release of the footage comes as SAFE ramps up its campaign to end mud farming. "The conditions shown in the footage are not what we would expect from a facility promoted as a world-leading dairy farm," SAFE campaign manager Emma Brodie said. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
12-08-2025
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Over 100,000 people on radiology wait list
Over 100,000 people around the country are on the radiology wait list, in the queue in the public health system for MRIs, X-rays, CT scans and other diagnostic tests. APEX, the union representing medical imaging technologists and sonographers, said radiology services are unravelling. Meanwhile, 45% of the health workers who answered the APEX survey said they are working with broken, outdated or unsafe equipment. APEX Advocate, Omar Hamed spoke to Lisa Owen. Tags: To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
RNZ News
12-08-2025
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Hospital radiology services suffering surging demand, lack of investment report shows
The report was produced by APEX which is the union representing over 1500 Medical Imaging Technologists and 350 sonographers. Photo: 123RF A new report has slammed the state of the country's hospital radiology services saying inadequate staff numbers and a lack of investment is 'unravelling' the sector. The report from APEX - the union representing over 1500 Medical Imaging Technologists (MIT) and 350 sonographers - showed 102,446 patients on radiology waiting lists nationwide (as of March 2026) with over half of the country's departments reporting inadequate staffing levels. The report based on a national survey of APEX members and data obtained through Official Information Act requests said more than 44 percent of MIT staff surveyed said they were working with broken, outdated, or unsafe equipment. APEX national secretary Dr Deborah Powell told RNZ the report outlined how deeply the sector "had fallen into disarray". "Understaffed and exhausted teams, working with broken equipment are finding it impossible to provide safe and timely services as demand for medical imaging surges," Powell said. She said waiting lists were growing "across the board" - even for people with conditions requiring urgent attention. "In Auckland... acute or urgent scans people are on the waiting list - which is pretty much unheard of really. If you're acute or urgent you get straight in but we're now seeing a waiting list growing for those sorts of patients," Powell said. She said the revelation the health system had spent over $100 million outsourcing radiology services to private providers in the last year was at the core of the problem. "It seems to be easier to pay the cost of outsourcing than get our staffing and machinery fixed in-house. If that money had been reinvested in sufficient staff and sufficient equipment then we believe we would've achieved far more than that and in a far more cost effective way," Powell said. Five hospitals - Taranaki, Bay of Plenty, Auckland, Capital & Coast and Hutt - reported MIT staffing level as approaching crisis point. "Our people are exhausted, they're burnt out. Patients are not getting the service they want. They're getting frustrated [and] sometimes they take it out on staff. So we are seeing our people leaving the public sector and going and working for the private sector. That's a double whammy. "We are getting to the point where our guys are just so tired they can't keep doing this - the risk of mistakes goes up - and the only option is to outsource which in actual fact exacerbates our problem," Powell said. She said Te Whatu Ora needed to lift the current hiring freeze, implement a national plan for the replacement of technology and redirect funding diverted to outsourcing back into the public system. Te Whatu Ora has been approached for comment. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
