Covid 19 coronavirus: Govt makes urgent law change after High Court ruling on legality of vaccine rollout
18 May, 2021 04:25 AM
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By: Katie Harris, and Jake McKee
multimedia journalist at the Herald in Wellington@katieharrisnz
The Health Minister is making an urgent law change after a High Court judgment ruled it was reasonably arguable the Government s provisional approval of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is problematic .
The case - Nga Kaitiaki Tuku Ihu Medical Action Society Incorporated v The Minister of Health - was in the High Court at Wellington last week.
Govt makes urgent law change after High Court ruling on legality of vaccine rollout
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The Health Minister is making an urgent law change after a High Court has ruled it was reasonably arguable the Government s provisional approval of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is problematic .
The case - Nga Kaitiaki Tuku Ihu Medical Action Society Incorporated v The Minister of Health - was in the High Court at Wellington last week.
In a decision released today, Judge Rebecca Ellis said: it is reasonably arguable that the decision to provisionally approve the vaccine for much wider use is problematic and went beyond the powers of section 23 of the Medicines Act.
Minister of Health Andrew Little claimed that his recently announced health restructuring was bold. But it was only bold in the sense that whiteboard warriors are bold. Sitting behind this embellished claim is the unacknowledged view that structural change drives .
Opinion – Ian Powell Minister of Health Andrew Little claimed that his recently announced health restructuring was bold. But it was only bold in the sense that whiteboard warriors are bold. Sitting behind this embellished claim is the unacknowledged view that structural change drives …
Minister of Health Andrew Little claimed that his recently announced health restructuring was bold. But it was only bold in the sense that whiteboard warriors are bold. Sitting behind this embellished claim is the unacknowledged view that structural change drives health system improvement.
This conflicts with long experience that first, it doesn’t and second, sustained health system improvement is generated by cultural or process change. I say this in the context of the Minister’s intention to abolish district health boards by July 2022.
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OPINION: Judith Collins has clearly struck a vein of public disquiet with her questions in parliament about the extent of the Government s programme to honour partnership responsibilities under the Treaty of Waitangi. I doubt she would be pursuing accusations of a separatist agenda if internal polls were not showing a certain amount of traction. Collins maintains she wants Labour to have a conversation with all New Zealanders about how they are interpreting the Treaty and how far they intend to take co-governance. Māori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer also wants a conversation.