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Nitrates in our drinking water: a chat with Dr Tim Chambers (opens the original)
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Environmental epidemiologist Dr Tim Chambers spoke with The Frontline about how nitrate runoffs is affecting our national drinking water supply. How much of a risk is it? What can communities and households do about it? Why is it happening and how do we control it? Tim and his colleagues have just published an internationally important study on nitrates, drinking water, and the rate of pre-term deliveries in pregnant women. Go get yourself a big glass of water and settle in for a knowledge sessi
"Listening is often the treatment" a conversation with GP, author and performer Lucy O'Hagan (opens the original)
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After 30 years as a GP and writer, Lucy O'Hagan now has a solo show coming to theatres around Aotearoa. Lucy shares with The Frontline audience her perspective on the patient-doctor interaction as an act of storytelling. "Every consult is an improv", "Medicine itself is a culture", and "You can't do anything without relationship" -- Lucy's style focuses on power relationships, storytelling, and mauri rather than just medical facts. In this interview we also explore issues of trust, cultural safe
"It can be done" a conversation about NZ's mental health challenges with Dr Erik Monasterio (opens the original)
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Dr Erik Monasterio is a forensic psychiatrist with a long and illustrious career as a leader in forensic mental health, a speciality that works at the intersection of the criminal justice system and the health system. We talk about potential solutions to NZ's shocking levels of youth suicide, serious mental illness, anxiety, and addressing the social determinants of health: things like social isolation, hunger, and homelessness. We touch on healthcare privatisation, the extraordinary cost of inc
Malcolm Mulholland: The Great Healthcare Handover (opens the original)
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Today we talk with patient advocate and healthcare researcher, Dr Malcolm Mulholland, founder of Patient Voice Aotearoa and leader within Kaitiaki Hauora, Together for Public Health, an advocacy group fighting the privatisation of New Zealand's public healthcare system. We discuss the big myths of private healthcare: that it's cheaper and more efficient than public healthcare. And have a chat about the risks of healthcare privatisation: a loss of access for rural communities, a black box of 'sec
Steve Watts: Is the thin blue line getting thinner? (opens the original)
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For the first time in 90 years, police are campaigning publicly for better pay and working conditions. There are news stories of police using food banks, while numbers of new recruits in training have dropped. What are the facts behind the "Repay the Risk" campaign and how can the public ensure our essential public services are supported and maintained? We speak with Steve Watt, President of the NZ Police Association.
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