Host - Stuart Cook
Guest - Dr Martin Chadwick

About this episode:

Chief Allied Health Professions Officer Dr Martin Chadwick sits down with one of our Aotearoa New Zealand committee members Stuart Cook to discuss Martin’s views on Paramedicine and how he can support paramedics within Aotearoa from his role within Manatū Hauora - Ministry of Health.  

About Martin:

Martin is the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer within the Ministry of Health, working in partnership with the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Nursing Office in providing transdisciplinary clinical leadership and advice. The role works at a systems level as well as providing support to clinicians, programmes and projects across the Ministry. He is aligning a work programme around what he describes as the five challenges facing allied health. This includes the challenges of demonstrating the value add of the allied health professions to population health outcomes; and working towards the concept of transdisciplinary working in the provision of healthcare services.  Martin was the 2019-20 New Zealand Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. He has completed his doctoral degree in 2019 examining health workforce change. He is passionate about the untapped potential that allied health professions can bring in improving the quality of care provided to our populations, and in turn better meeting equitable population health needs.

About Stuart: 

Stuart has worked in the prehospital sector for more than 23 years’ in Aotearoa New Zealand including ambulance operations, HEMS, clinical development, and education. He is a registered Paramedic in both New Zealand and Australia. 

He has a strong interest in primary healthcare, remote and austere medicine, and the use of technology for remote education. He completed his Health Practice Masters - Paramedicine in 2018 

Stuart looks forward to developing the College’s New Zealand based education and mentoring models for paramedicine. He also looks forward to seeing the Paramedic profession growing and adding value to all areas of Healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand.