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Podcast from the New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa newspaper. Featuring System Fix - the podcast for health reform junkies and more
Episodes
- Episode 36: System Fix: Episode 32 - Two Marks for a new PHO
System Fix host Barbara Fountain talks about a PHO in the making with two Marks – Mark Liddle, chief executive of the General Practice Owners Association, and Mark Peterson, specialist GP from Taradale and a member of the interim boa…
- Episode 35: System Fix: Episode 31 - A year of pride and prejudice: 2025 in review
System Fix host Barbara Fountain returns to the microphone after a lengthy hiatus and warms up with a reading of her review of critical happenings for primary care in the New Zealand health system in 2025. This podcast is based on the arti…
- Episode 34: System Fix: Episode 30 - But wait, there's more
System Fix host Barbara Fountain joins New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa colleague senior journalist Martin Johnston for what started out as a rundown of events in health reform since health minister Simeon Brown took the reins in January,…
- Episode 33: System Fix: Episode 29 - New year, new minister
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 te…
- Episode 32: System Fix: Episode 28 - PSAAP and the making of a PHO contract
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 mys…
- Episode 31: System Fix: Episode 27 - Like a reheated burger
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 installi…
- Episode 30: Waiting for COVID by Lucy O’Hagan
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 t…
- Episode 30: Educate Long Read: Hand-arm vibration
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 m…
- Episode 30: Educate Long Read: Full-body vibration
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 medi…
- Episode 29: System Fix: Episode 26 - Unwinding health reforms
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…
- Episode 28: System Fix: Episode 25 - From Little to Reti in 2023
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 memor…
- Episode 27: Educate Long Read: The Arms Act - an explainer for healthcare professionals
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…
- Episode 26: Long Read: Episode 2 - The Bourne Identity: GP to CMO (Joe Bourne)
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
- Episode 25: Long Read: Episode 1 - Winners are grinners: Lloyd McCann
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa journalist Alan Perrott's profiles Tāmaki Health chief executive Lloyd McCann in the first of our Long Read series
- Episode 24: System Fix: Episode 24 - Chatting with Abbe Anderson
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…
- Episode 23: System Fix: Episode 23 - It looked okay on a whiteboard - hearing from Rob Campbell
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…
- Episode 22: System Fix: Episode 22 - New Year, new minister, and more
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 Tenb…
- Episode 21: System Fix: Episode 21 - Talking about Iwi Māori Partnership Boards
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 Zealan…
- Episode 20: System Fix: Episode 20 - Rob Campbell and 1 July
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 -…
- Episode 19: System Fix: Episode 19 - Almost there
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 th…
- Episode 18: System Fix: Episode 18 - All about localities
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 A…
- Episode 17: System Fix: Episode 17 - Summer progress report
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 o…
- Episode 16: System Fix: Episode 16 - And that was 2021
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain and senior journalist Martin Johnston recap progress with the country's health reforms in 2021
- Episode 15: System Fix: Episode 15 - The minister tabled a bill
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…
- Episode 14: System Fix: Episode 14 - On holding true, the guys from TU
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…
- Episode 13: System Fix: Episode 13 - It doesn't happen by magic
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
- Episode 1: Talking with Andrew Little - 6 August 2021
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa reporter Martin Johnston interview health minister Andrew Little.
- Episode 12: System Fix: Episode 12 - Where are we?
It’s just over 400 days since the report of the Health and Disability System Review Panel, aka the Simpson Report, was released. New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain and regular System Fix panelists Gabrielle Baker and…
- Episode 11: System Fix: Episode 11 - Talking with Kim Gosman
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain talks with rural health champion Kim Gosman about health reform and what it might mean for rural and Māori health
- Episode 10: System Fix: Episode 10 - Rural sojourn
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain caught up with folk in the rural health sector at the National Rural Health Conference to find out what they're thinking about the health reforms, in particular rural localities. Hea…
- Episode 9: System Fix: Episode 9 - The Budget, go figure
Regular panelists, independent health researcher Gabrielle Baker and University of Auckland health policy researcher Tim Tenbensel, join New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain to take on the challenge of interpreting what…
- Episode 8: System Fix: Episode 8 - The big reveal
Health minister Andrew Little revealed his plans for the health system on 21 April with a restructuring which went well beyond that recommended in the Health and Disability System Review. Barbara Fountain and regular panelists Gabrielle Ba…
- Episode 7: System Fix: Episode 7 - Pondering DHBs and Health NZ
Her Easter plans having changed unexpectedly and with an announcement on the new health sector structures expected before the end of the month, New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain, spent a rainy day at home hunting out…
- Episode 6: System Fix: Episode 6 - On professional capture of change...and more
Barbara Fountain recaps the latest on the reforms taking place to the health system, and chats to Christchurch GP Vanessa Weenink and Auckland medical oncologist George Laking (Te Whakatōhea) – both with leadership roles in the sector – ab…
- Episode 5: System Fix: Episode 5 - What's happening out there?
Episode 5: The System Fix panel – Barbara Fountain, Gabrielle Baker and Tim Tenbensel - continues sifting through the little official news currently available on the transformation of the New Zealand health system and find there’s more hap…
- Episode 4: System Fix: Episode four - Time tables, game changers, power plays
Ep 4: Time tables, game changers, the perennial issue of power plays within government systems, and more on what a Māori health agency might look like, are all up for discussion by Barbara Fountain and regular panellists Gabrielle Baker an…
- Episode 3: SYSTEM FIX: Episode 3 - Interview with health minister Andrew Little
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa senior journalist Martin Johnston talks to health minister Andrew Little about progress with implementing the health sector changes as proposed by the Simpson Report
- Episode 2: SYSTEM FIX: Episode 2 - What next for disability services?
Disability services advocate Ruth Jones (Ngāti Porou) of Hei Whakapiki Mauri and Kanohi ki te Kanohi Consultancy and Jane Cartwright, chair of intellectual disabilities services provider Brackenridge Services, talk with New Zealand Doctor|…
- Episode 1: SYSTEM FIX: Episode 1 - Getting started
The Health Media’s Barbara Fountain, health sector consultant Gabrielle Baker (Ngāpuhi) and health policy researcher Tim Tenbensel start out on a journey, to follow the implementation of changes to the New Zealand health and disability sys…
- PRIMARY VOICES: With Orna McGinn
South Auckland GP Orna McGinn talks about the poor access to contraception in New Zealand and what needs to change
- PRIMARY THINKING: With Vanessa Weenink
Christchurch GP and former army doctor Vanessa Weenink talks about the real meaning of command and control, and why bureaucrats just don’t get it when it comes to dealing with primary care
- David Clark talks primary care
Shortly before this year's general election, Fiona Thomas spoke to Labour's David Clark about what he would do, should he become health minister.
- David Haslam the second
There were two David Haslams at this year's RNZCGP conference in Dunedin. Fiona Thomas spoke to each of them. Here, she speaks to Professor David Haslam, chair of the UK's National Obesity Forum
- David Haslam the first
There were two David Haslams at this year's RNZCGP conference in Dunedin. Fiona Thomas spoke to each of them. Here, she speaks to Professor David Haslam, chair of UK guidelines group NICE
- The $18 GP fee
Health minister Jonathan Coleman's media conference at Onslow Medical Centre in Wellington, launching the National Party policy of $18 GP fees
- Dave Gerrard
Not sure what this is about
- Tim Malloy on VLCA
Tim Malloy talks to Cliff Taylor about VLCA and primary care funding
- Interview with Tim Malloy, RNZCGP
Dr Malloy has just been re-elected as president of the college
- Sponsored Podcast: Nutrition in the first 1000 days
Dr Tosh Stanley discusses how nutrition in first 1000 days of life can shape a child’s future health. University of Otago, Wellington.
- First Time: Using social media
Using social media by Jo Scott-Jones