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…
Author: Ian Powell
-
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Important lessons from UK politics for New Zealand Labour Party
Recent reputable opinion polls suggest that, contrary to both historical precedent and most people’s expectations (including mine), the chances of…
-
Reckless Disregard or cruelty (or even Trumpian!)
When something occurs in Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system that at the very least is reckless, the best response in…
-
Gutting specialised national health teams as part of ‘slash and burn
In my final post for 2024 (15 December) I critically discussed the ‘slash and burn’ strategy of Health New Zealand…
-
When New Zealand politics gets in the pocket of the gun lobby
Will 2025 be any different from 2024 in respect of the gun lobby’s influence over the National-ACT-NZ First coalition government’s…
-
Welcome puberty blockers report but beware derailing transphobia
On 21 November the Ministry of Health released its long awaited position statement, accompanied by an evidence brief, on the…
-
Imperialism, the Chagos Islands and the fight to return
I have just finished reading Tariq Ali’s excellent book Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes (Verso, London, 2021). Although with…