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Simeon Brown: Health Minister on Health NZ directly employing all first-year trainees · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Fonterra has confirmed that the sale of its consumer groups
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  Speaker 1: to the French is happening. It's now unconditional. All the
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  Speaker 1: regulatory approvals, everything, all that stuff has been stamped. So
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  Speaker 1: good it's being done. You'll remember they said to be
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  Speaker 1: a capital return of two bucks to share to shareholders
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  Speaker 1: and they have now given some dates, so Fonterra can
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  Speaker 1: today advise that it expects the record date to be
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  Speaker 1: eligible for capital return to be the ninth of April.
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  Speaker 1: Payment date fourteen April twenty twenty sixth now that is
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  Speaker 1: based off the transaction being completed at the end of March.
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  Speaker 1: It is thirteen after five changes are coming to boost
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  Speaker 1: the primary healthcare workforce. Health New Zealand will now become
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  Speaker 1: the direct employer for all first year GP trainees. Move
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  Speaker 1: means training doctors can keep their leave, their pay and
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  Speaker 1: their continuity. This is all apparently very important. Simming and
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  Speaker 1: Brown is the Health Minster with us this morning, Minister,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good to have you on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Had any conversations at the weekend about your boss.
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  Speaker 2: Now, we're completely behind Chris luckxin very focused on winning
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  Speaker 2: in November and making sure that New Zealanders are reminded
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  Speaker 2: that the challenges we're facing today are a direct result
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  Speaker 2: of the decisions made by Chris Hipkins and the Labor Party,
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  Speaker 2: and that we need to continue on the plan that
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  Speaker 2: we've got by re electing a national lead government led
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  Speaker 2: by Christopher.
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  Speaker 1: Luxen, Who's we.
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  Speaker 2: The National Party caucus is in complete resupport of our leader.
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  Speaker 2: You've a focused on winning in November?
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  Speaker 1: Have you all had a group convo?
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  Speaker 2: Look, ultimately, we are focused on winning in November. The
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  Speaker 2: caucuses behind out our leader, behind our prime minister. How well,
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  Speaker 2: the reality is we accept there are challenges facing New
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  Speaker 2: Zealanders and many of those challenges are a direct result
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  Speaker 2: of the decisions made by the previous government, the focused
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  Speaker 2: on laborsuring we win.
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  Speaker 1: TWI, I don't want to spend too long on this minister,
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  Speaker 1: because we've got actually, you know, important stuff to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: But I just want to know, how do you know
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  Speaker 1: that the entire caucus backs him?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're focused on winning in November. We're not focused
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  Speaker 2: on polls come and go. They reality of the only
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  Speaker 2: pole that matters is the one in November, and that's
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  Speaker 2: the one that is where the team focused on winning.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, Hey, the doctors. What's happening here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Health New Zealand has agreed to be the employer
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  Speaker 2: effect effectively to continue being the employer for first year
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  Speaker 2: g PEP doctors, which is the first year of general
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  Speaker 2: practice training. It's been one of the barriers to encouraging
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  Speaker 2: doctors to consider specializing as general practitioners because effectively they
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  Speaker 2: become employees of the Royal College, they lose their leaf
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  Speaker 2: balances and other conditions and that can be a challenge
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  Speaker 2: in terms of recruiting the number of general practitioners that
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  Speaker 2: we need as a country. So the agreements we made
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  Speaker 2: that Health New Zealand will continue employing doctors as they
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  Speaker 2: start their specialization as general practitioners and effectively this has
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  Speaker 2: been something which has been recommended for some time and
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  Speaker 2: it's part of our plan to grow the number of
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  Speaker 2: gps that we have in New Zealand. Which is as
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  Speaker 2: everyone knows an area which is needing significant events, which
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  Speaker 2: we're cost us any more money to do it that way?
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  Speaker 1: Or are you just rejigging them, not.
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  Speaker 2: Really effectively rejigging what's currently Why.
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  Speaker 1: Has no one done it then? I mean you said
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  Speaker 1: that it's been on the books for eight it.
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  Speaker 2: Was recommended I think back in twenty twenty two, there
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  Speaker 2: was a report done back then. Ultimately we've got round
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  Speaker 2: and done it. There's been a number of other changes
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  Speaker 2: we've also made to try and encourage further GP specialization.
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  Speaker 2: Another one I announced last year which was that we
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  Speaker 2: would cover the fees for general practitioners for their training
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  Speaker 2: and exams through for the full three years, something that
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  Speaker 2: was done for other specialist special specializations but not for
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  Speaker 2: general practitioners. So effectively, we want to see general practitioners
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  Speaker 2: seen as a key specialty. We want to encourage young doctors,
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  Speaker 2: new doctors to take up under practicing and a practice
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  Speaker 2: is a key specialty. Good. This is another part of that,
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  Speaker 2: another part of that plan stuff.
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  Speaker 1: He appreciate your time this morning, Minister, Thanks very much
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  Speaker 1: for being with me. Thank you, Siving Brown Health Ministers.
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