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1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

1/200 Campaign Season E11 - Primary Care and Privatisation of Healthcare We’re joined by Mikey Brenndorfer to discuss the history of policy that led us to present day healthcare structures & the unique and immediate risks of privatisation of the NZ healthcare system w/ @kyledchurch.bsky.social

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1/200 Campaign Season E11 - Primary Care and Privatisation of Healthcare — 1/200

We’re joined by Mikey Brenndorfer about the structure of primary health, the history of policy that led us to the present day structures and the way that they are presenting unique and immediate risks...

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I did an online update course through the Immunisation Advisory Committee last week, and honestly I can't stop thinking about how ridiculous and inappropriate these AI images were that they used - especially the two used in the 'cultural engagement' section which relied on AI generated stereotypes.

Two AI generated images - one meant to depict a gender diverse young person, the other meant to depict a 'culturally diverse' family

AI generated images of a cartoon woman with a low-cut v-neck shirt, in one image eyes slightly crossed.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

No one is denying that actively opposing an authoritarian force increases your risks of extrajudicial execution, it's just some people seem to be okay with extra judicial executions at the hands of authoritarian forces.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I'm honestly so sick and heartbroken watching incredibly passionate, skilled, and qualified healthcare workers being so burnt by the funding cuts carried out by this government that they're leaving the healthcare system altogether. #nzpol

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

One of the big things of noticed in the responses to the Manage My Health data breach debacle is the fact so few people seem to understand that our Primary Health Care system is a privatized neoliberal system, hence why a for profit private entity operates the primary care patient portal that is MMH

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Explain your username. My name is Mikey. Surprisingly I'm a nurse.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

My favourite part of intergenerational Xmas time is hearing how much my grandmother in law hated Paul Henry's attempt at the Chase.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Brian Tamaki's gang-like cult today disrupted a Sikh community event in Manurewa today - Destiny Church is the biggest threat in this country and we need to start actively confronting them. www.facebook.com/share/v/1MMi...

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Honestly reading through the decision from the high court makes it even more glaringly obvious that cabinet made this transphobic decision solely on grounds of imported culture war and ignored all expert advice provided.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 16/12/2025

BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:

courtsofnz.govt.nz

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

As we continue to normalise inadequate and frankly unacceptable policy across the board, it should be noted that those speaking up are experts, frontline staff, lived experience voices and the public. Leaders are permitting this through silence and inaction - actively normalising bad governance.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I personally think this is hilarious but also predictable - with the government's decision to move ADHD assessment and diagnosis into primary care without consultation with or funding of the primary care system, for profit ADHD clinics are popping up www.seek.co.nz/job/89077460...

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ADHD Nurse Practitioners or ADHD senior Nurses- Remote role! Feb 2026 start. Job in Auckland - SEEK

Brilliant flexibility, autonomy and support here! Work remotely but as part of a highly experienced ADHD clinical team. Feb 2026 start.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My phone fell out of my pocket on Karangahape Road and every nearby driver and pedestrian yelled out to me to let me know I'd dropped it. I love my neighbourhood.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Over the years I've spoken on behalf of the nurses union, or as a nurse at countless protests. Today I spoke at the #BlockTheBan protest in Tamaki in response to our government banning puberty blockers for trans kids. Unlike any other protest I've spoken at, this time I was immediately in tears.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Even after this coalition government cut new graduate nursing hours from 32 to 24 hours per week in a very strange effort to provide new grad nursing jobs, STILL less than 50% of new grad nurses in New Zealand have been offered jobs.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media). Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc. I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber) 1/2

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Absolutely hilarious that the government had ALREADY had to rewrite their regulation banning puberty blockers because they were so incompetent, and the initial regulation was ambiguous and illogical. Even now the current wording allows side stepping of the regulation.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Did the New York Times know that today is Ikea Day in Aotearoa?

A screenshot of today's Connections puzzle from the New York Times, one of the squares is Ikea Furniture.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Specifically, he claims to be "restoring accountability", while actually removing independent oversight in favour of a powerless committee he appoints himself.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 03/12/2025

The Paediatric Society of NZ - representing the clinical field most relevant here - have released maybe the strongest statement of all the medical bodies: “puberty blockers are an established, safe, reversible, and life-saving treatment option”

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PSNZ responds to government announcement on puberty blockers

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Honestly, Labour's policy around primary care, which they have erronously described only in relation to GPs, appears to completely misunderstand the actual issues facing Primary Health Care in this country - www.labour.org.nz/familydoctor...

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Family Doctor Loan Scheme

NZ Labour - Family Doctor Loan Scheme. Read more:

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

This flag has been up for possibly a couple months judging by a reddit thread about it. It's still up now, unfortunately on a building overseen by the Auckland City Mission at the moment.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Just to highlight how stupid this wording is - this legislation change appears to suggest that GnRHa can NEVER be prescribed to a transgender person for any clinic reason based on the wording of this puberty blocker ban legislation change.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Look at the wording this transphobic government is adding into legislation - this level of interference with healthcare provision is wildly unprecented. www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/p...

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Medicines (Restriction on Prescribing Gonadotropin-releasing Hormone Analogues) Amendment Regulations 2025 (SL 2025/256) – New Zealand Legislation

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Can you imagine any other situation where a government bans a widely used medication without any identified examples of harm occuring while ALSO not providing any meaningful alternative treatment options? I guess this is what happens when hateful anti trans folk become minister of health.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Another health professional body adding to their voices to the outrage at our transphobic government's ban on puberty blockers - www.tekahuikorowairangatahi.co.nz/knowledge-hu...

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Te Kāhui Korowai Rangatahi - Youth Health Aotearoa

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I really wish the left wing parties talking about "free GP appointments" would at least get in touch with the College of Primary Health Care Nurses, because they're really missing a huge part of the problem by only centring GPs in their discussions, policies, and rhetoric.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Not to undermine how transphobic Simeon Brown is, but with NZ First's announcement today to repeal the Regulatory Standards Act that they literally voted to pass just days ago, I can't help but think the puberty blocker ban was a negotiation tactic to buy the votes of the very transphobic NZ First.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Here's another nursing led response to the puberty blocker ban by this transphobic government. Is there a thread showing all the professional bodies pushing back against this decision? kaitiaki.org.nz/article/nzno...

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NZNO rainbow, child health nurses slams ‘devastating’ ban on puberty-blockers – Kaitiaki Nursing New Zealand

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Very proud to have been able to contribute to this response from the NZNO College of Child and Youth Nurses to the puberty blocker ban. I'm glad our union and college have our back and are willing to stand up to this transphobic government. www.nzno.org.nz/about_us/med...

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Puberty blocker ban will hurt young people: Child and Youth nurses

The decision to ban new prescriptions for puberty blockers will hurt young people, the NZNO College of Child and Youth Nurses (CCYN) Tapuhitia Ngā Mokopuna Mō Apōpō says. Minister of Health Simeon Br...

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Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand Aotearoa @alranz.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

If they can ban access to healthcare like puberty blockers for one group of people, they can do this with any healthcare for their next target. They will ban abortion again given the chance and they will come after contraception after that. The anti-choice movement is our govt right now. #nzpol

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

There is a reason our fundy PM appointed another fundy as the Minister of Health and it is because they share the same beliefs on many issues, including abortion #nzpol

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Trying to write a press release for the College of Child and Youth Nurses in response to this transphobic puberty blocker ban but I'm not sure I can express how I feel about this without swear words.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 19/11/2025

PATHA's statement has been published: patha.nz/news

The Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) condemns today's decision from Minister of Health Simeon Brown introducing a ban on new prescriptions of GnRH analogues (puberty blockers) for transgender children and young people who are not currently on them. This ideologically driven ban will have a devastating impact on the lives and wellbeing of our transgender and gender diverse young people.
We know that children, young people and their whanau will be highly distressed by this decision.
We also acknowledge health professionals' frustration at the way their expertise has been ignored and disregarded.
"The ban will lead to a deterioration in mental health, increased risk of suicidality and increased dysphoria in gender diverse children and young people, and will put them at a higher risk of experiencing marginalisation and discrimination," says Dr Elizabeth McElrea, GP specialist in gender affirming care and PATHA Vice-President. "The prescribing of puberty blockers is always undertaken with the utmost care and consideration. They have been prescribed safely for decades for transgender children and banning their use will lead to profound distress in this already vulnerable
group."
This decision is not supported by the Ministry of Health's November 2024 evidence brief on this care.

This decision is not supported by the Ministry of Health's November 2024 evidence brief on this care. While the evidence brief identified some limitations in the academic quality of evidence regarding the risks and benefits of GRH analogues, limitations in evidence quality are common across a number of areas of medicine, especially within paediatric medicine, and do not justify a ban on access.
"PATHA supports evidence-based medicine, which consists of three key components: academic evidence, clinical experience, and patient preferences and values," says Dr McElrea. "When the quality of available academic evidence is of lower quality, it's incredibly common for clinicians to lean on guidelines drawn from clinical experience."
"Practising medicine, and paediatric medicine (not just within gender affirming healthcare), often necessitates providing care without a high-quality evidence base. The absence of high-quality clinical evidence does not mean providing this care is wrong."
"Children benefit from innovative medical treatments that improve their survival and quality of life. Pediatric care would all but cease if physicians denied treatments for which the evidence base is imperfect." (McNamara et al., 2024, p. 15) 'An Evidence-Based Critique of "The Cass Review" on Gender-affirming Care for Adolescent

The new restrictions will be in place until the conclusion of clinical trials in the United Kingdom, which are not due until at least 2031.
"In no other area of care would life-saving medication be withheld from a vulnerable population for six years. This will have a traumatic impact on a generation of transgender children," says Avery Zavoda, PATHA Executive Committee member.
PATHA is strongly against the decision. It is a shocking act of discrimination against transgender children and young people.
"That New Zealand First announced this news three hours before the Minister of Health shows the way this care has been politicised, and how politics have been prioritised over the wellbeing of New Zealand children," said Zavoda.
"Banning puberty blockers will not prevent children from being transgender, despite the disinformation New Zealand First are promoting," says Jennifer Shields, PATHA President. "It's obvious that this has been a political decision made to appease a coalition partner based on an imported culture war, rather than a medical recommendation reflecting the expertise of NZ clinicians and researchers who have been working in this field for over 25 years."
Identify, a 2022 New Zealand research survey on the experiences

Identify, a 2022 New Zealand research survey on the experiences of rainbow young people showed "the proportion of young people who wanted puberty blockers and were able to use them was nearly half the number of young people who wanted these medications but could not access them." These findings made it clear
that the prescription context and existing regulations "did not result in the easy access to young people who wanted puberty blockers that some people have claimed existed. In fact, the results demonstrate a seriously constrained prescription context that urgently needs further attention to be more equitable."
"We call on the Ministry of Health to publish their consultation report immediately, so that health professionals, trans people, and the wider public can see that this decision has been made by politicians rather than based on clinical experience," says Shields. "We also look forward to the Minister now immediately allowing the updated guidelines for gender affirming healthcare to be published."
"We also call on Labour, the Green Party, and Te Paati Mãori to commit to reversing this harmful decision if they are elected into government next year. Our communities need the reassurance that this ban will not last."
"PATHA is committed to ensuring all trans children and children experiencing gender dysphoria have access to the best quality care.

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tailstrike 🆓🇵🇸 @tailstrike.xyz · 19/11/2025

email and/or call Brown and your local MP now, because its always how this attempt at eliminating trans people starts #nzpol #ProtectTransKids

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Zero surprises that the brainless transphobic health minister in NZ ignored all expert advice and evidence and banned puberty blockers for trans youth. Literal blood on his hands. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

People are often surprised when I tell them that nurse practitioners leave the union once they qualify because they see themselves as future owners/bosses. But here's a shining example.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I always chat with my pharmacist when I pick up my own medication, he knows I'm an NP because my clients also use his pharmacy. We had a good chat about his major concerns about this government's changes to prescriptions, with twelve month scripts becoming available.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Are there actually people who like "long as walks on the beach"? Like, maybe it's because I'm disabled but walking on sand sucks so much I can't comprehend enjoying walking on sand for a long period of time.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Talking to school based healthcare services colleagues about the attempt to privatize public schools, it's surprises me how few people are aware that Act is a dogmatic libertarian party that aims to privatize all public services. #nzpol

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The attempted bid to turn Kelston Boys College into a charter school should send shivers up everyone's spine. Libertarian dogma attempting to undermine the school with a nearly 100% Māori and Pacific Island roll is classic Act party racism in action. #nzpol

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This nurse practitioner here, who's constantly advocating for expanding the role of registered nurses in Primary Health Care, is gonna have a stroke if every political party including the Greens keeps talking about "free GP visits" #nzpol

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Free primary care visits (fuck this GP centric discussion) would be great IF our primary health care system wasn't an example of neoliberalism failing the people. Especially in a context where primary care clinics are rapidly being bought out by conglomerates of profiteers.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

While our minister of health continues to indicate he's contemplating a ban on puberty blockers in Aotearoa New Zealand, across the ditch the Supreme Court overturned an attempt to block blockers in Queensland. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Queensland government considers reissuing puberty blocker ban after supreme court overturns it

Parent of transgender child successfully challenged LNP decision to prevent new patients under 18 accessing hormone treatments for gender dysphoria

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Cops are THE LAST people you want present in a medical emergency. Today walking to the supermarket we passed two cops attending to a minor traffic stop, as we carried on we noticed to people approach and kneel down to check on a man who was unconscious on the ground.

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