Health Minister Simeon Brown will face questions from 200 senior doctors this Thursday when he speaks at the 37th annual conference of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS).
The Minister is a keynote speaker at the conference, which runs from October 16-17 at Te Papa with the theme Te Ara Whai Tika, which speaks of following the correct or right path.
Other speakers include Ngāti Toa chief executive Helmut Modlik, patient advocate Malcolm Mulholland, public policy scholar and former MP Dame Marilyn Waring and leading commentators on health economics, psychiatry, health equity and patient advocacy.
Minister Brown is speaking at 9.15am on Thursday in the Oceania Room at Te Papa.
A full programme is available here.
Reports tackle how we could build a better health system
The conference will also mark the launch of three new reports commissioned by the ASMS, which build on the theme of Te Ara Whai Tika. They are:
Māori health, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and the impacts of outsourcing: An exploratory report
Health policy specialist Gabrielle Baker (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Wairupe-Ngāti Kuri) examines the ways Te Tiriti has been applied to health and considers the real risk that increased privatisation and outsourcing can have on exacerbating inequities for Māori, Pacific Peoples and people with complex health needs.
Economics, health and wellbeing: Who’s on board for the paradigm shift?
Public policy specialist, former MP and feminist Dame Marilyn Waring argues current metrics such as GDP fail to account for the true value of health. She describes a new paradigm where health is an investment, not conditional on reducing debt and inflation or building reserves.
Fiscal rules: Fiscal framework and rules to deliver Health for All
Economist Dr Ganesh Ahirao (aka Ganesh Nana) explores Aotearoa’s fiscal settings and how governments can move within those settings to kick start a public conversation on what health services we expect, the infrastructure we need and how we’re going to pay for it.
