PremiumOpinionOpinion byJonathan AylingColumnist·NZ Herald·17 Jun, 2026 05:00 PM5 mins to readJonathan Ayling is a strategy consultant and professional director. Medical Council row highlights tensions over regulatory authority. Photo / Getty ImagesThe “removal” of the Medical Council’s chair and deputy chair by the Minister of Health has been treated in some quarters as yet another scandalous ideological broadside from the Government against an independent regulator.
Health Minister Simeon Brown chose not to reappoint – which, from the outset, is clearly different
