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Podcast from the New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa newspaper. Featuring System Fix - the podcast for health reform junkies and more

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Episode 29: System Fix: Episode 26 - Unwinding health reforms

March 05, 2024 00:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MB

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 about:  The impact of the closure of Te Aka Whai Ora on Māori patients and providers and the wider reforms; The resulting brake on the rollout of localities, the increased...

Episode 28: System Fix: Episode 25 - From Little to Reti in 2023

February 15, 2024 00:00 - 45 minutes - 63.4 MB

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 Aoteraroa is in primary care and you will hear that theme loud and strong in this episode of System Fix. It's not a comprehensive look at the year - more of a fly by....

Episode 27: Educate Long Read: The Arms Act - an explainer for healthcare professionals

October 24, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MB

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

Episode 26: Long Read: Episode 2 - The Bourne Identity: GP to CMO (Joe Bourne)

August 04, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MB

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

July 27, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB

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

June 21, 2023 00:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MB

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 to see a reform built on knowing what people want of their health system, progress with sector restructuring, why that capitation offer won't go past 5 per cent, the gr...

Episode 23: System Fix: Episode 23 - It looked okay on a whiteboard - hearing from Rob Campbell

April 26, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB

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 Fountain says that speech and Mr Campbell’s subsequent comments deserve more air time and replays it as part of this podcast episode. Mr Campbell provides the ultimate ...

Episode 22: System Fix: Episode 22 - New Year, new minister, and more

February 27, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MB

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 minister, the end of the transition unit, progress with planned care, commissioning, iwi Māori partnership boards, localities, PHOs, capitation, pay parity, primary care f...

Episode 21: System Fix: Episode 21 - Talking about Iwi Māori Partnership Boards

September 29, 2022 00:00 - 41 minutes - 32.9 MB

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 Gabrielle Baker and guest Simon Royal to take a look at the challenges facing these new boards

Episode 20: System Fix: Episode 20 - Rob Campbell and 1 July

July 12, 2022 00:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

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's interview with Te Whatu Ora board chair Rob Campbell, who admits he was quite shocked when he realised quite how dysfunctional the health system was

Episode 19: System Fix: Episode 19 - Almost there

June 20, 2022 00:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MB

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

Episode 18: System Fix: Episode 18 - All about localities

April 27, 2022 00:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MB

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

Episode 17: System Fix: Episode 17 - Summer progress report

March 14, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MB

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 Revolution

Episode 16: System Fix: Episode 16 - And that was 2021

December 16, 2021 00:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MB

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

November 04, 2021 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB

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 don't have to (though we know you probably will - it's the bane of being a health reform junkie)

Episode 14: System Fix: Episode 14 - On holding true, the guys from TU

October 04, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 34.6 MB

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, workforce, leadership and, ultimately, selling the plan for health sector reform and convincing people to stay the course

Episode 13: System Fix: Episode 13 - It doesn't happen by magic

September 09, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 37.2 MB

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

August 09, 2021 00:00 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MB

New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa reporter Martin Johnston interview health minister Andrew Little.

Episode 12: System Fix: Episode 12 - Where are we?

July 28, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutes - 21 MB

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 Tim Tenbensel catch up on the latest developments in the roll out of reforms to the New Zealand health system

Episode 11: System Fix: Episode 11 - Talking with Kim Gosman

July 07, 2021 23:34 - 22 minutes - 15.1 MB

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

June 23, 2021 00:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MB

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. Health and Disability System Transition Unit deputy director Martin Hefford provides some insights on the proposed changes

Episode 9: System Fix: Episode 9 - The Budget, go figure

June 04, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MB

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 this year’s Budget might mean for health and more specifically the health reforms, and catch up on progress with the reforms rollout

Episode 8: System Fix: Episode 8 - The big reveal

April 23, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB

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 Baker and Tim Tenbensel digest the news

Episode 7: System Fix: Episode 7 - Pondering DHBs and Health NZ

April 12, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 21.8 MB

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 the audio from last year's Popcorn Panel discussing super-sized DHBs and the proposed Health NZ. Joining her from the archival audio footage are health policy researcher Tim Tenbensel, health sector commentator Ian Powell and ProCare medical direct...

Episode 6: System Fix: Episode 6 - On professional capture of change...and more

March 23, 2021 00:00 - 33 minutes - 27.1 MB

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 – about the tricky issue of professional capture of systems and change; how veteran medical professionals could benefit from the education their younger colleagues are receiving, and the power shifts needed to help make reforms work

Episode 5: System Fix: Episode 5 - What's happening out there?

February 23, 2021 00:00 - 23 minutes - 18.9 MB

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 happening out there than first apprearances might suggest

Episode 4: System Fix: Episode four

February 01, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes - 19.9 MB

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 and Tim Tenbensel

Episode 3: SYSTEM FIX: Episode 3 - Interview with health minister Andrew Little

January 22, 2021 00:00 - 18 minutes - 14.8 MB

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 3: SYSTEM FIX: Episode three

January 22, 2021 00:00 - 18 minutes - 14.8 MB

Ep.3 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 two

December 18, 2020 01:11 - 30 minutes - 24.4 MB

Ep.2 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|Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain about why the Simpson report falls short for people with disabilities (With apologies for some technical glitches)

Episode 2: SYSTEM FIX: Episode 2 - What next for disability services?

December 18, 2020 01:11 - 30 minutes - 24.4 MB

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|Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain about why the Simpson report falls short for people with disabilities (With apologies for some technical glitches)

Episode 2: SYSTEM TWO: Episode two

December 18, 2020 00:00 - 30 minutes - 24.4 MB

Ep.2 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|Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain about why the Simpson report falls short for people with disabilities (With apologies for some technical glitches)

Episode 1: SYSTEM FIX: Episode 1 - Getting started

December 07, 2020 03:13 - 26 minutes - 21.4 MB

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 system. We start with introductions, some initial thoughts on legislated charters, meaningful acknowlegement of te Tiriti o Waitangi and transition – fast and slow

Episode 1: SYSTEM FIX: Episode one

December 07, 2020 03:13 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MB

Episode one: 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 system. We start with introductions, some initial thoughts on legislated charters, meaningful acknowlegement of te Tiriti o Waitangi and transition – fast and slow

Primary Voices - Dr McGinn

November 05, 2020 00:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MB

South Auckland GP Orna McGinn talks about the poor access to contraception in New Zealand and what needs to change

PRIMARY VOICES: With Orna McGinn

November 05, 2020 00:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MB

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

September 25, 2020 00:00 - 36 minutes - 49.5 MB

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

November 07, 2017 00:00 - 10 minutes - 8.7 MB

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

August 30, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 10.1 MB

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

August 29, 2017 00:00 - 9 minutes - 6.36 MB

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

August 21, 2017 04:32 - 30 minutes - 13.8 MB

Health minister Jonathan Coleman's media conference at Onslow Medical Centre in Wellington, launching the National Party policy of $18 GP fees

Tim Malloy on VLCA

August 19, 2017 20:27 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MB

Tim Malloy talks to Cliff Taylor about VLCA and primary care funding

Dave Gerrard

August 19, 2017 00:00 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MB

Not sure what this is about

Interview with Tim Malloy, RNZCGP

August 09, 2016 00:00 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MB

Dr Malloy has just been re-elected as president of the college

Sponsored Podcast: Nutrition in the first 1000 days

March 22, 2016 00:00 - 10 minutes - 14 MB

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

November 02, 2015 00:14 - 8 minutes - 7.5 MB

Using social media by Jo Scott-Jones

First Time: Tips to stymie bad debt

October 12, 2015 21:09 - 8 minutes - 8.07 MB

By Jo Scott-Jones

Advertising

September 22, 2015 00:00 - 7 minutes - 6.54 MB

Advertising

FIRST TIME: Making more money

September 20, 2015 00:00 - 4 minutes - 5.66 MB

Jo Scott-Jones talks about ways of increasing your income

Developing a philosophy of care

September 01, 2015 00:00 - 7 minutes - 7.15 MB

A philosophy of care can be defined as the underlying theory or set of ideas that informs the values and choices that you use to help meet your patients’ needs