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Good morning.

It is a pleasure to be here to open your seminar on clinical governance and help you launch the report of the Clinical Governance Assessment Project.

The Project’s goal is to assess the progress New Zealand is making in improving clinical governance and leadership in our public health service….to see how we are doing in re-engaging frontline clinicians in the running of the public health service.

This is the largest research project of its kind in the history of the New Zealand public health service.

E ngā iwi e tau mai nei i tēnei pō ki te whakanui i ēnei tohu hauora, tēnā rā koutou katoa.

It is with great pleasure that I stand and speak at these awards tonight.

Tonight the recipients of these awards will pick up the mantle of those kaumātua and kuia – some of our most passionate health leaders who have since passed on. And it is into these very big shoes our scholars step today - and in stepping into these shoes our scholars are stepping into health environments and communities that need them as much today as ever before.

Thank you for inviting me here today to make this exciting announcement.

It is my pleasure to announce the New Zealand Blood Service, in partnership with Ngāi Tahu Property, is building a new blood donor and laboratory centre here in Christchurch.

The new centre, which is planned to open its doors in just over two years’ time, will be a purpose designed building that will house a donor centre, manufacturing and testing laboratories, specialised warehousing and support offices.

Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here today.

I would like to thank the team at Malyon House in particular David and Cecily Munro for inviting me here to officially open the recently rebuilt Malyon House facility.

It is an exciting time for everyone, not only has the facility undergone a major upgrade it has also been extended to provide additional beds and now offers both rest home and hospital level care.

Associate Minister of Health Jo Goodhew today officially opened a new Tairawhiti District Health Board facility to enhance access to training and development opportunities.

The facility, which is called Ko Matakerepo – Tairawhiti Health Learning Centre, will focus on programmes for graduate health professionals and provides a dedicated space for training programmes.

“This facility provides an excellent space to develop new ideas, techniques, and ways of collaboration between health professionals across the district and wider,” says Mrs Goodhew.

E aku rangatira, tēnā koutou katoa.  Ka nui te honore ki te mihi ki a koutou.

Welcome to you all and thank you Mary and Wilf for inviting me here today. I would also like to acknowledge the Hospice New Zealand Board members and in particular extend a warm welcome to all your speakers, some having travelled from overseas to be here.

Banquet Hall; Parliament, Wellington,
[delivered on her behalf by Skye Kimura]

Tena koutou katoa

I would like to welcome you all here to parliament. We have spent the day reflecting on the journey towards becoming a smoke free nation. Today, we have shared new ideas and fresh stories, we have brought in new perspectives and expertise, and we have recalled the work that each of us has done.

I have been greatly looking forward to this biennial tobacco control conference.

And I want to thank the Health Promotion Agency, and the National Tobacco Control Working Group, for holding us all to account in an issue of such significance.

It is a real pleasure, to also share the stage as we open this conference, with Professor Robert Beaglehole and Ben Youdan who have both contributed enormously to the wider gameplan for tobacco reform.

I can hardly believe the progress we have witnessed since we were last together in November 2010.

Energy Events Centre, Rotorua

E aku rangatira, tēnā koutou katoa. Ka nui te honore ki te mihi ki a koutou.

Thank you Michelle [A’Court] for the warm introduction. It is a great pleasure to be here addressing a group who are absolutely critical to the future provision of more efficient, better and safer health care.

I am very pleased to be here with you today to open the Community Action Youth and Drugs 2012 National Hui.

Welcome

Good morning and thank you for inviting me to open your 65th annual scientific meeting.

Since your first meeting when Mabel Howard was Minister of Health, there have been another 24 ministers serving on average two and a half years each.

During that time your specialty has changed a lot too… with new ways of treating and caring for patients: Smarter technology, smarter techniques and smarter use of the wider healthcare team. Even your specialty name has changed.

I am pleased to be with you this morning to open your conference with its theme this year of Self-Care.

Self-care is fundamental to good health because it's about personal responsibility.

It's about what we as individuals and families can do to improve and maintain our health, and to make choices about how we do that.

Today my comments will focus on this theme as well as clinical integration, changes in pharmacy, and the opportunity for patients and families to take greater control of their own health.

E aku rangatira, tēnā koutou katoa.  Ka nui te honore ki te mihi ki a koutou.

Thank you for inviting me to be here and speak to you today.  I am particularly pleased to be able to attend on the 40th anniversary of the funding partnership between Government and Churches to provide an ecumenical Hospital Chaplaincy service. 

Acknowledgements

Rendezvous Hotel, Auckland

E aku rangatira, tēnā koutou katoa. Ka nui te honore ki te mihi ki a koutou.

Good morning, and welcome to you all.

Thank you Elaine for the warm welcome. It is a pleasure to be here this morning as you pursue better ways to manage and prevent obesity across Australasia for our children's children.

Good afternoon.

And thank you for the chance to speak at this Platform leaders’ forum to discuss the Government’s Better Public Services programme and its likely impacts on the mental health and addictions NGO sector.

Better Public Services

The Better Public Services programme supports the delivery of the third priority of the Government’s four priorities for this term:

I move, That the seven bills divided from the Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill be now read a third time.

First, I would like to thank my ministerial colleagues particularly Hon Chester Borrows, for their assistance in the second reading and committee stages of this Bill.   And I want to again mention the professional commitment and passion, way beyond the call of duty, of the health officials who champion tobacco reform.

Good morning.

And thank you for inviting me to speak to you today.

I appreciate this opportunity to share with you New Zealand’s experiences in suicide prevention.

Indeed, it is particularly timely, given that it is Mental Health Awareness Week at present.

I believe that together we can be successful in reducing the number of Aussies and Kiwis who die as a result of suicide and that is a goal worth pursuing on both sides of the Tasman.

Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre, Auckland
Workforce – Strengthening Strategies, Supporting Careers

Malo e lelei, Talofa lava; Fakalofa lahi atu, Aloha; Ni sa bula vinaka; Namaste; Fakatalofa atu, Noa'ia; Taloha ni, Halo olketa, Kia orana; Mauri, Tēnā koutou katoa

President Dr Kiki Maoate; Chief Executive Debbie Sorensen; Dr Joseph Williams, and the Executive Board of the Pasifika Medical Association – thank you for the honour of opening this conference session.

Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre, Auckland

SUPPORTING PACIFIC WOMEN'S ASPIRATIONS
What a great way to start the day – attending a working breakfast with a room full of Pasifika women.

I had to chuckle at the title – heaven forbid that we should just enjoy each other's company and share kai together!

True to form, Pasifika women work at breakfast, lunch and tea – no surprises there.

Copthorne Hotel, Christchurch, 9.30am, Friday, 5 October 2012

 Good morning and welcome to you all.
My special thanks to  Supporting Families with Mental Illness for inviting me to open this conference, and I wish to acknowledge the efforts that have been made in gathering everyone here today, including the Supporting Families National council, Ernie Tait, the organising committee, and the Canterbury Branch.

New Zealand Health Care Summit 2012

Understanding and developing strategies for the improvement of Māori health and wellbeing

Aotea Convention Centre, Auckland

[Delivered by Teresa Wall; Deputy Director-General Health]

Occasionally I hear people talk about improving Māori health as if it were a mystical concept.

Address to the New Zealand Healthcare Summit

Aotea Convention Centre, Auckland
10am, Wednesday 3 October 2012

Good morning.
Thank you for inviting me to speak at this year’s Healthcare Summit.
This is now the fourth year that I have spoken at this Summit, and I appreciate your continued interest in Medicines policy.

As you know, the Government’s Medicines Strategy is outlined in Medicines New Zealand.

Good morning.

Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here today and open this workshop.

I would like to thank Kaumatua Wally Campbell for the warm welcome and Dr Beverley Lawton for the invitation to speak to you about how we can improve maternity care for mothers and babies, and their families.

Can I also acknowledge Professor Stacie Geller, the 2010 Woman of the Year from the University of Illinois Chancellors Committee on the Status of Women.
You have achieved a lot of distinguished work on behalf of women.