Hospitals - Rates

Date: 1999

From: Various cartoonists :[Cartoons collected by Jim Anderton, 1970s-2011]

By: Ball, Murray Hone, 1939-2017

Reference: B-197-058

Description: Shows a highway robber, representing National and ACT, holding up an elderly couple at the entrance to a hospital. The man has an axe embedded in his head, and his wife carries a very sick-looking child in her arms. Refers to the user charges that the National Government introduced to hospitals and universities during the 1990s Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies photocopy of original cartoon. Physical Description: Photocopy, 400 x 295 mm (sight) Processing information: Record updated on 29 June 2023 when the access and use conditions were updated per the agreement with Diogenes Designs Limited for the Murray Ball Estate.

Date: 1993

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :The Dominion; Cartoons 3 February - 3 March 1993

Reference: H-043-007

Description: Shows a patient in a hospital bed hooked up to credit cards. Refers to hospital charges Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1992

From: Scott, Thomas 1947?- :The Evening Post; Cartoons, 1 - 24 December 1992

Reference: H-033-004

Description: Shows a surgeon wearing a $100 dollar note as a mask. Refers to the introduction of hospital charges and to the introduction of regional health authorities Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1993

From: Tremain, Garrick fl 1990s :Otago Daily Times cartoons. 7 December 1992 - 30 January 1993

Reference: H-135-020

Description: Shows a painter carrying his paint-pot and a ladder away from a door in St Upton's Hospital above which the sign now reads "Credit Cardiology Dept". Refers to user charges in hospitals and to Health Minister, Simon Upton Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1993

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :The Dominion cartoons 16 December 1992 - 11 January 1993

Reference: H-068-008

Description: Shows Simon Upton as a baliff in a field urging savage little animals (debt collectors) to attack invalids on crutches, in wheelchairs, etc. Refers to his decision to use debt collectors to collect unpaid public hospital user charges Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1994

From: Tremain, Garrick fl 1970s-1990s :Editorial cartoons. 23 March - 14 June 1994

Reference: H-106-056

Description: Shows Jenny Shipley as a nurse in a hospital surgical admissions office opening a door and crushing a public patient against the wall, while beckoning to a private patient. Refers to the decision to allow public hospitals to take private patients Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1993 - 1994

From: Greenall, Frank, fl 1980-1990s :Cartoons published in The Dominion. Mar 1993/May 1994.

Reference: A-300-049

Description: An elderly woman in a hospital bed. A team of doctors looms over her, offering to take her assets to pay for her care. Refers to the government's practice of arranging for elderly patients to pay for their own care above a certain level of assets Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 296 x 418 mm

Date: 2010

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0014976

Description: The cartoon shows a huge bomb representing 'neurosurgery' with a fizzing fuse. A couple of men, one of them a policeman peer at it from behind a brick wall. The policeman says that 'IED is the new buzzword... Improvised Explosive Device.' This is about the controversial topic of neurosurgery units in the South Island. Currently both Christchurch and Dunedin provide neurosurgical services, but with the five South Island district health boards (DHBs) agreeing the South Island would be best served by having one hospital providing them, one will be forced to give up. There have been large protests led by the mayors of Dunedin and Invercargill. A report on the issue is due to be presented to Health Minister Tony Ryall in October. An 'IED' is an improvised explosive device like that which killed Kiwi soldier Tim O'Donnell in Afghanistan. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0012024

Description: Shows two surgeons about to operate on a patient representing the Southland District Health Board operating budget. Refers to cuts in the Board budget and services. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0029987

Description: Depicts dead fish sekeltons lying in a glass fish tank. Accompanying text refers to Dunedin Hospital spending $73000 to install a fish tank and more than $1000 a week to run in its first year. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Digital cartoons published in The Press, Sunday Star Times, Dominion Post, and other publications

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.); Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0030085

Description: Depicts a 'theatre of healthcare' in which a hand wielding an 'HBL' saw is about to take an 'arm and a leg' from the 'DHB' patient on a hospital surgery bed. A voice out of frame comments that "..it would be cheaper if you did it yourself". Refers to an announcement by Health Minister Jonathan Coleman that the Government's cost-cutting entity Health Benefits Ltd (HBL) would be discontinued. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0027646

Description: Cartoon depicts a doctor examining patient Mrs Passmore in his clinic by checking her tongue. She is finding as it hard to swallow as he is finding it hard to 'swallow' the events of election year. Refers to accusations that government is forcing hospitals to cut services to meet budget. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020006

Description: A patient's condition has seriously declined after he saw a bill for his treatment that mistakenly hugely overcharged him. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).