System Fix: Episode 29 - New year, new minister

Welcome to 2025. System Fix host Barbara Fountain joins regular panellists Gabrielle Baker and Tim Tenbensel as the health sector year starts with the surprise, or maybe not surprise, arrival of a new health minister - Simeon Brown. The team talk about what the change means for the reforms of the New Zealand health sector currently awash with job and spending cuts. We also canvas the future of funding including the possibility of a change in the balance between public and private funding for healthcare, and how Mr Brown might work to meet everything expected of him by the boss, prime minister Christopher Luxon