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Jan 24th, 2025
Welcome to 2025. System Fix host Barbara Fountain joins regular panellists Gabrielle Baker and Tim Tenbensel as the health sector year starts with the surprise, or maybe not surprise, arrival of a new health minister - Simeon Brown. The team talk about what the change means for the reforms of the New Zealand health sec...

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Oct 2nd, 2024
System Fix host and New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain talks to colleague and journalist Fiona Cassie about her feature story "Boiled frogs, tight nooses: The making of a PHO contract" to learn more about the mysterious general practice contract "negotiation" process run under the PHO Services Ame...

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Aug 5th, 2024
After a sojourn, the System Fix panel is back with an update of the last five months in health reform - that is the time BEFORE health minister Shane Reti turned Te Whatu Ora and the reforms on their head by ditching the board and installing a commissioner. The Government Policy Statement on Health, a reality check on ...

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May 2nd, 2024
How well do you remember those early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when New Zealand watched in apprehension as overseas the virus spread uncontrolled in Italy, health workers died on the job, and morgues ran out of room for the bodies of the dead. Specialist GP and writer Lucy O’Hagan remembers. In Waiting for COVID, D...

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Apr 23rd, 2024
Hand–arm vibration syndrome develops in stages and prevention is critical; when function deteriorates, it is necessary to consider it lost, unless a lot of hard work is put into rehabilitation, professor in occupational and environmental medicine David McBride explains. He reminds listeners of the usual occupational he...

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Apr 23rd, 2024
Exposure to high levels of whole-body vibration, such as that caused by driving forklifts and other forms of material handling equipment, can and does cause intervertebral disc degeneration. Professor in occupational and environmental medicine David McBride explains

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Mar 5th, 2024
It's a cracker episode with panellists and health policy experts Gabrielle Baker and Tim Tenbensel joining me, Barbara Fountain, to catch up on the latest in health reforms. The panel convened in the middle of a week that started with the Parliamentary debate on the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora. You’ll hear abou...

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Feb 15th, 2024
The year 2023 is quickly becoming a distant memory as the great Kiwi summer does an excellent job of wiping the neural slate clean. System Fix host Barbara Fountain takes the opportunity of an unexpected convalescence, to refresh her memory by looking back at her editorials in 2023. The heart of New Zealand Doctor Rata...

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Oct 24th, 2023
Recent changes to the Arms Act 1983 and the launch of Te Tari Pūreke are intended to support the safe and responsible use of firearms in Aotearoa, making our communities safer. This article by Kendra Hill and Cathy Stephenson answers some common questions about the implications of these changes for health practitioners

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Aug 4th, 2023
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa journalist Fiona Cassie talks to Joe Bourne, the first GP to hold the role of chief medical officer at the Ministry of Health 

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Jul 27th, 2023
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa journalist Alan Perrott's profiles Tāmaki Health chief executive Lloyd McCann in the first of our Long Read series

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Jun 21st, 2023
Abbe Anderson is Te Whatu Ora national director commissioning. The buck stops with her for any items relating to funding and planning in primary care and community health. System Fix host and New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain recently caught up with Abbe via Zoom. They chatted about her passion t...

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Apr 26th, 2023
Five weeks after he was sacked as chair of the board of Te Whatu Ora, Rob Campbell reflected on what was going so wrong with the health reforms and what might be done to make it right. He was speaking to a meeting of the Fabian Society in Wellington. System Fix host and New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara F...

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Apr 26th, 2023
Five weeks after he was sacked as chair of the board of Te Whatu Ora, Rob Campbell reflected on what was going so wrong with the health reforms and what might be done to make it right. He was speaking to a meeting of the Fabian Society in Wellington. System Fix host and New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara F...

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Feb 27th, 2023
System Fix host and New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain is joined by regular panelists independent health policy consultant Gabrielle Baker (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kuri) and Auckland University health policy professor Tim Tenbensel for the first episode of 2023. You name it, we cover it - a new health mini...

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Sep 29th, 2022
Iwi Māori partnership boards are a crucial element of the new health sector landscape. The boards are the Treaty partners in a system which has as a key priority achieving equity in health outcomes for Māori. System Fix host and New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain is joined by regular panelist Gabr...

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Jul 12th, 2022
System Fix host and New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain provides a quick rundown of events around the 1 July launch of New Zealand's new central health entities - Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand and Te Aka Whai Ora - Māori Health Authority, and then makes way for senior journalist Martin Johnston...

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Jun 20th, 2022
As the 1 July deadline looms, System Fix host Barbara Fountain is joined by regular panelists independent health policy consultant Gabrielle Baker and Auckland University health policy researcher Tim Tenbensel, for a whistlestop tour of the latest developments in the roll out of the health reforms

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Apr 27th, 2022
System Fix host Barbara Fountain is joined by New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa senior journalist Martin Johnston in conversation with Martin Hefford of the interim Health New Zealand, on the afternoon of 21 April, the day health minister Andrew Little announced the first nine prototype localities

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Mar 14th, 2022
It's been a while between podcasts, what with the summer break and now COVID making its mark in New Zealand. System Fix host Barbara Fountain joins regular panelists Gabrielle Baker and Tim Tenbensel to catch up with progress on the roll out of the health sector reforms, or as we like to call it, the Big Little Revolut...

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Dec 16th, 2021
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain and senior journalist Martin Johnston recap progress with the country's health reforms in 2021

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Nov 4th, 2021
The health reforms legislation - Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill - was tabled by health minister Andrew Little on 20 October and soon after passed its first reading. Regular System Fix panellists Gabrielle Baker and Tim Tenbensel join host Barbara Fountain with a mission in mind - their own reading of the bill, so you d...

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Oct 4th, 2021
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain talks to Stephen McKernan, director of the Health and Disability Review Transition Unit, and his deputy, Martin Hefford, about function trumping form, a crucial health plan, central agencies vs local services, communities and localities, private providers, workfo...

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Sep 9th, 2021
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain talks to David Meates, former chief executive of Canterbury DHB and now roving health reform consultant, about how change happens in health systems…and more

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Aug 9th, 2021
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa reporter Martin Johnston interview health minister Andrew Little.

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