Collective insight
Ki Te Pae Tawhiti – Aotearoa New Zealand’s Health Reform Collective – is a transdisciplinary community that monitors and analyses the implementation of health reforms in New Zealand and aims to inform and engage the public in dialogue about how the changes will impact them and their communities.
NZ already spends less on health than Australia or Canada – we need proper funding, not ‘crisis’ management
We are being told the health system is in crisis, “on the brink of failure” – spending beyond its budget, waiting times getting longer, suffering from widespread staff shortages. Read...
Legislation cracking down youth vaping imminent – Costello
From Radio New Zealand Audio Published 18:07 18/07/2024 Professor Chris Bullen says the move flies in the face of expert advice and evidence of effectiveness. Minister Costello said the move is a trial as part of a push to make them a more attractive alternative...
Video coverage: Expert panel on health reform and policy change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEyo129ON4k
Commentary on the Government Policy Statement on Health
By Chris Bullen The Government Policy Statement on Health Government Policy Statement on Health 2024–2027 | Ministry of Health NZ signals the Coalition Government’s priorities for health over the next few years. Included are some significant statements that, at...
Healthy and liveable cities: why does the Government Policy Statement on transport matter?
Jamie Hosking and Alistair Woodward, School of Population Health, Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland. We’ve all noticed that some parts of some cities are particularly enjoyable and stimulating. These tend to be places where you can easily walk around and...
Blog Piece: Therapeutic Products Act
Enacted in July 2023, the Therapeutic Products Act 2023 (TPA) is an ambitious piece of legislation that was intended to develop, improve, and in some cases, introduce, regulatory standards for therapeutic products. The TPA covers a wide range of products, broadly categorised as medicines, medical devices, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and natural health products (NHPs).
What did the Health Minister mean when he used the term ‘front line’?
By Chris Bullen. Health Minister Dr Shane Reti recently said, “More resources will be directed to front-line health services” as part of Budget 2024. What did the Minister mean when he used the term 'front line'? I suspect he has in mind clinical staff - nurses,...
Why the government’s haste in changing the health system could come back to haunt it
Author: Tim Tenbensel. Since coming into power, the coalition government has adopted a simple but shrewd see-how-fast-we-can-move political strategy. However, in the health sector this need for speed entails policy risks that could come back to bite the government...
100 “Kick-Arse” days in Government: implications for equity
Monique Jonas for Ki Te Pae Tawhiti, the NZ Health Reform Collective. When newly elected National MP for Rangitata James Meager (Ngai Tahu) addressed the House last December, he spoke of his childhood in South Timaru. He described growing up in hardship and the...
100 Days of Tiriti “partnership”?
Monique Jonas (Pākehā) and Anneka Anderson (Kāi Tahu and Kāti Māmoe) for Ki Te Pae Tawhiti NZ Health Reform Collective. When Minister of Health Dr Shane Reti presented the Pae Ora (Disestablishment of Māori Health Authority) Amendment Bill to the House for its...
What the Coalition Government’s 100 Days Plan Reveals About Its Commitment to Health
100 days plan for health
Health Service and System and the 100 day-plan in New Zealand
By Tim Tenbensel. By design, the 100-day mark of the new coalition government has attracted sizeable media attention. It is driven by a political marketing focus in which the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon can say after 100 days "We told you what we're gonna do,...
Te Tiriti: 100 days plan in Health
By Monique Jonas. When newly elected National MP for Rangitata James Meager (Ngai Tahu) addressed the House last December, he spoke of his childhood in South Timaru as “a part-Māori boy, raised in a State house by a single parent on the benefit.” He described...
Where does Public Health fit in the reformed Aotearoa New Zealand health system?
New Zealand Public Health is unique and fits into the health reform 2022 with all the new changes implemented by the new government.
Repealing the Smokefree Act: A case of “Damn the evidence, full steam ahead”
Repealing the Smokefree Act: A case of “Damn the evidence, full steam ahead”
Key issues
HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS
EQUITY
DRUGS, DEVICE AND DIAGNOSTICS
PUBLIC HEALTH
DIGITAL HEALTH
TE TIRITI