The dirtiest of politics and a tale of two MPs cloaked in hypocrisy
The recent contrasting response of two different ‘controversies’ involving two politically different MPs are covered by a cloak of hypocrisy….
Author: Ian Powell
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It does matter to patients whether they are operated in a public or private hospital
On 7 March Minister of Health Simeon Brown made a major health announcement concerning Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora)….
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Revisiting Universalism
Since his sacking as Chair of Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora) Rob Campbell has taken to freelance writing like…
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Trumpian health leadership
On 18 March I received an email from a reader briefly stating that: “Boy, here’s something for you to get…
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A devastating critique; but there’s always a but!
I became the Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) in April 1989, a couple of weeks…
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When Apartheid meets Zionism
The 1981 Springbok Tour was one of the most controversial events in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history. For 56 days, between…
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Getting out of the current health system mess
The above heading is the abbreviated heading of a presentation I gave to a virtual health summit organised by the…
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Private versus public health systems
When I began employment as Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists in 1989, the relationship between the…
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When overlaying fact in health systems with fiction morphs into embellishment
In discussing what he believes to be his health system understanding and prowess Health New Zealand Commissioner Lester Levy is…
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Is Health New Zealand becoming an Audit Office frequent flyer?
The Office of the Auditor-General, which includes the Audit Office, is a critical statutory body charged with giving Parliament and…