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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1508/
- Published: 2026-06-16T18:30:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-16T18:30:27.000Z
- Description: Simeon Brown declined to reappoint Medical Council chair Dr Rachelle Love and deputy chair Simon Watt when their terms expired, despite both remaining eligible for reappointment
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Health Minister Simeon Brown has replaced the leadership of New Zealand’s medical regulator, saying the Medical Council has become distracted by politics and an “ideological agenda”.  
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> Brown declined to reappoint Medical Council chair Dr Rachelle Love and deputy chair Simon Watt when their terms expired, despite both remaining eligible for reappointment, [Andrea Vance](https://www.thepost.co.nz/authors/andrea-vance?ref=goodoil.news) of [*the Post*](https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361024008/simeon-brown-ousts-medical-council-leadership-over-ideological-agenda?ref=goodoil.news) reported.  
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> The Medical Council is responsible for registering doctors, setting professional standards and ensuring practitioners are competent and fit to practise.  
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> Brown said ministerial appointments were ultimately a matter for ministers.  
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