New Zealand Doctor Podcast
1) 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...Show More
2) 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 con...Show More
Episode 32: System Fix: Episode 28 - PSAAP and the making of a PHO contract
28:25 | Oct 2nd, 2024
3) 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 ...Show More
4) 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 morg...Show More
5) 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, profes...Show More
6) 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...Show More
7) 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 ...Show More
8) 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 unexpec...Show More
9) 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 ...Show More
10) 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 26: Long Read: Episode 2 - The Bourne Identity: GP to CMO (Joe Bourne)
15:39 | Aug 4th, 2023