NEW ZEALAND | NEW OMBUDSMAN APPOINTED

Dr McGee has retired as New Zealand's Ombudsman. The new appointee is Professor Ron Paterson.

Ron Paterson is a New Zealand Parliamentary Ombudsman and former Professor of Law at the University of Auckland. He was New Zealand Health and Disability Commissioner 2000–2010. With law degrees from Auckland and Oxford Universities, Ron has held Fulbright and Harkness Fellowships, in biomedical ethics and health policy. He has researched and lectured in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia, and is an international expert on complaints, healthcare quality and the regulation of health professions. Ron is co-editor of the textbook Medical Law in New Zealand (2006) and author of The Good Doctor: What Patients Want (2012).