Your job is to be minister FOR health: Here’s what you need to know

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Your job is to be minister FOR health: Here’s what you need to know

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Vanessa Weenink

BEEHIVE, PARLIAMENT, GENERAL ASSEMBLY LIBRARY

LETTER TO INCOMING MINISTER

New Zealand Doctor|Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain asked former advisor to health ministers David Galler what advice he might have for a new health minister. In his own inimitable ‘briefing to the incoming health minister’, Dr Galler describes both the approach needed and the pressure points where change in the sector must come

Dear minister Congratulations on your government’s success in the election and your appointment as a minister. It is a tough and thankless job, so