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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 32: System Fix: Episode 28 - PSAAP and the making of a PHO contract

Oct 02 2024 28 mins  
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 Amendment Agreement Protocol, or PSAAP to its friends

Episode 31: System Fix: Episode 27 - Like a reheated burger

Aug 05 2024 37 mins  
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 health targets, the puzzling road ahead for iwi Māori partnersh

Episode 30: Waiting for COVID by Lucy O’Hagan

May 01 2024 97 mins  
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, Dr O’Hagan takes a personal journey back through her writings

Episode 30: Educate Long Read: Hand-arm vibration

Apr 23 2024 10 mins  
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 health algorithm: identify the hazard, assess the exposure, cont

Episode 30: Educate Long Read: Full-body vibration

Apr 23 2024 10 mins  
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

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

Mar 04 2024 38 mins  
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 Māor

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

Feb 14 2024 45 mins  
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

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

Oct 23 2023 12 mins  
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)

Aug 04 2023 15 mins  
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

Jul 26 2023 13 mins  
New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa journalist Alan Perrott's profiles Tāmaki Health chief executive Lloyd McCann in the first of our Long Read series