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Grey Power March 2017

The Grey Power Magazine is a prime national news source for its readers – New Zealand men and women over 50. Circulated quarterly to more than 68,000 members, Grey Power Magazine reports on the policies of the Grey Power Federation, and the concerns of the elderly, backgrounding and interpreting official decisions which affect their lives.

The Grey Power Magazine is a prime national news source for its readers – New Zealand men and women over 50. Circulated quarterly to more than 68,000 members, Grey Power Magazine reports on the policies of the Grey Power Federation, and the concerns of the elderly, backgrounding and interpreting official decisions which affect their lives.

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NZ GREYPOWER MAGAZINE » MARCH <strong>2017</strong> 33<br />

ADVOCACY REPORT<br />

From page 32<br />

ity of older people (RNZ, Elderly Face<br />

180km journey if bank closes, August<br />

26th 2016)<br />

NB: The Kiwi Bank website banner states:<br />

“Our name says it all. We're a bank made<br />

for New Zealanders, by New Zealanders.<br />

Helping Kiwis achieve financial independence<br />

is what we do.”<br />

<strong>Grey</strong> <strong>Power</strong> asked:<br />

Q. Is there the commercial possibility that, as<br />

other banks leave town, Kiwi Bank could pick<br />

up the customers’ other banks abandon?<br />

A. KiwiBank would look at areas where<br />

other banks are leaving and they will<br />

look at which service they could provide.<br />

Q. Does KiwiBank have a moral obligation to<br />

provide banks/postal services in small towns?<br />

A. Franchisees require the business to be<br />

economically viable<br />

Q. How do individuals and organisations<br />

open accounts etc. if there are no banks available?<br />

A. Assuming, they can’t go in store, or the<br />

store they have access to is transaction<br />

only and can’t open investment accounts,<br />

and assuming they don’t have online access,<br />

the only other option available to<br />

them is to call up. We do have a join team<br />

and that is an option. We will look at the<br />

feasibility of providing a mobile service if<br />

there are a number of people who want to<br />

start an account etc.<br />

Q. Re business arising from previous lobby<br />

visits = a form which <strong>Grey</strong> <strong>Power</strong> can distribute<br />

to members and intending members<br />

which would ensure that when they open a<br />

KiwiBank account, that account is flagged to<br />

guarantee <strong>Grey</strong> <strong>Power</strong> receives its commission.<br />

A. We are looking at forms for this purpose<br />

<strong>Grey</strong> <strong>Power</strong>’s gain = the information<br />

that KiwiBank would investigate the feasibility<br />

of a periodic mobile service to centres<br />

which had lost banking facilities and<br />

that it was considering producing a form<br />

to ensure that all <strong>Grey</strong> <strong>Power</strong> members<br />

KiwiBank accounts were flagged<br />

MEETING WITH PAUL HODGESON AT NZ<br />

POST<br />

– the meeting discussed the problem of<br />

non-payment of accounts by due dates because<br />

of reduced mail deliveries and the<br />

reasons why some street post boxes been<br />

removed.<br />

Members have contacted <strong>Grey</strong> <strong>Power</strong><br />

with stories of insufficient time to pay<br />

accounts received via post by a due date<br />

and also a significant number of members<br />

are concerned about the removal of street<br />

post boxes<br />

Paul explained that NZ Post’s standards<br />

are a 2-3-day outward letter delivery<br />

service from retailer to residence<br />

and the same inwards to retailer etc. but<br />

sometimes mail can be held up if another<br />

delivery service is utilised by retailers or<br />

customers.<br />

The rationale for post box removal is<br />

lack of use which means they are not cost<br />

effective and NZ Post has to be self-funded.<br />

<strong>Grey</strong> <strong>Power</strong> gained an explanation of<br />

the necessity of cost effectiveness for NZ<br />

Post in an era of reducing mail volumes<br />

HEALTH<br />

MEETING WITH HON DR J COLEMAN -<br />

The meeting discussed delayed access<br />

to elective surgery in the public health<br />

system<br />

<strong>Grey</strong> <strong>Power</strong>’s policy goal is to advocate<br />

for improved early access to elective surgery<br />

through demonstration of a positive<br />

benefit / cost ratio.<br />

The Minister of Health’s statements re<br />

problems with elective surgery is that the<br />

Government has put many extra dollars<br />

into health across the board and that this<br />

is reducing elective surgery and diagnostic<br />

tests waiting time. However, various<br />

research projects have found this is not<br />

so – see I. Powell, Time for honesty and<br />

investment approach to health funding,<br />

nzDoctor.co.nz 17 August 2016 and Bill<br />

Rosenberg’s analysis of the 2015 health<br />

budget ‘NZ’s health system $1 billion<br />

worse off than six years ago; $220 per<br />

Kiwi’ in a NZCTU media release 8 June<br />

2015. Powell, also informs that successive<br />

governments have claimed that the cost<br />

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Priority criteria constrain elective surgery<br />

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costs, by deciding who will and who won’t<br />

receive treatment in the public health<br />

system in an effort to keep within district<br />

health board budgets and it is its use<br />

which interests <strong>Grey</strong> <strong>Power</strong>.<br />

Priority scores which are the deciding<br />

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Continued on page 35<br />

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