New Zealand Doctor podcasts

The driving licence medical has its pitfalls whether you know the patient well or the patient is a complete stranger, as Jo Scott-Jones explains

Jo Scott-Jones reflects on the beach, bach and beyond in a special Christmas podcast on How to Treat seaside issues For many, the New Zealand Christmas holiday season involves at least one trip to the beach or back. Not everyone will have a disastrous coastal holiday experience but, as doctors – required to think comprehensively about the differential diagnosis – it does no harm to be prepared for...

West Auckland GP Jonathan Simon is the latest to share his thoughts on primary care in the New Zealand Doctor podcast series, Primary Thinking.

20 November 2013: Dr Moffitt is the latest to share his thoughts on primary care in the New Zealand Doctor podcast series, “Primary Thinking”. In an interview with Reynald Castaneda, Dr Moffitt talks about how co-payments are a barrier to healthcare for poor communities, shares his frustration on some DHBs’ lack of enthusiasm for Integrated Family Health Centres and why GPs should champion public...

Jo Scott-Jones takes a First-Time look at the use of set pieces for asthma management to ensure a consistent approach from all practice staff

Tony Dowell, primary healthcare and general practice professor at the University of Otago, Wellington, is the latest to share his thoughts on the direction of primary care in the New Zealand Doctor podcast series Reynald Castaneda caught up with Professor Dowell at the Rotorua GP CME to discuss why GPs don’t talk to patients about their weight, his concerns over gastric bypass, and to provide his...

Lannes Johnson, clinical director at Waitemata PHO, is the latest to share his thoughts on the direction of primary care in the New Zealand Doctor podcast series, Primary Thinking. Dr Johnson discusses several projects he is working on to reduce health inequalities, the background role he played in getting the capitation system started and the big issues he sees ahead – namely, the need for those...

Getting to grips with cultural competence

Counties Manukau GP researcher Tim Kenealy talks to New Zealand Doctor for our Primary Thinking podcast series. Dr Kenealy’s research interests are diabetes and long-term conditions. He is also currently an associate professor of integrated care at Auckland University and is the clinical lead for quality improvement in Counties Manukau localities

Opotiki GP Jo Scott-Jones talks to New Zealand Doctor in the second in our ‘Primary Thinking’ podcast series. Dr Scott-Jones is the chair of the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network and gives us his views on where primary care in New Zealand is currently heading.

Hastings GP Bryn Jones, of Ngati Kahungunu, talks to New Zealand Doctor in the first in our Primary Thinking podcast series. Dr Jones chairs the RNZCGP Te Akoranga a Maui (Maori faculty) and is a director of Health Hawke’s Bay – Te Oranga Hawke’s Bay PHO.

Much of the credit for bringing Wairarapa primary and secondary care closer together in the past few years is being given to the DHB’s chief executive, Tracey Adamson, who has just left to start a health consultancy. In this podcast, Ms Adamson talks to Virginia McMillan about how the Wairarapa health system, particularly the primary and community sector, changed under her watch.

Lucy Ratcliffe spoke to former president of the US Institute of Healthcare Innovation Don Berwick at the 2012 Conference for General Practice

Katie Marriner interviewed RNZCGP president Harry Pert after his presentation at the APAC Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare in Auckland in September

After a decade as director of nursing at Auckland DHB, Taima Campbell left the role in April. In this New Zealand Doctor podcast, Katie Marriner asks Ms Campbell what some of her achievements were at the DHB.

The health risks of sitting should make GPs sit up and take notice, says a visiting UK sport, exercise and health professor. Reporter Virginia McMillan interviews Loughborough University's Stuart Biddle about his work on sedentary behaviour.

Rima Rudd, a senior lecturer on society, human development and health at Harvard University in the US, was in Auckland last month for New Zealand’s first every health literacy conference. New Zealand Doctor journalist Lucy Ratcliffe talks to Dr Rudd about health literacy and what GPs can do to help

Louis Francescutti, injury prevention advocate and president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, recently visited New Zealand as part of ACC’s falls prevention project, Idea Nation. In this podcast, New Zealand Doctor reporter Katie Marriner asks Dr Franscutti what sparked his interest in injury prevention and what GPs can do to help.

Katie Marriner interviews UK health leader, Nuffield Trust policy head Judith Smith

Paul Hunt was the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of health from 2002 to 2008. Katie Marriner asks him about his work in the role, including his investigation into whether pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has a responsibility under the right to the highest attainable standard of health.