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# Simeon Brown takes on media spin over health worker survey
- URL: https://goodoil.news/simeon-brown-takes-on-media-spin-over-health-worker-survey/
- Published: 2025-03-04T10:40:26.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-04T20:34:30.000Z
- Description: 98.5% of workers didn’t even bother responding.
- Author: Centrist
- Tags: News

Summarised by [Centrist](http://centrist.nz/?ref=goodoil.news)

**New Health Minister Simeon Brown pushed back against questionable media coverage of a Public Service Association (PSA) survey on health worker stress.** 

> New Health Minister Simeon Brown showed a bit of the the fight today that his Prime Minister so badly lacks.  
>  
> While Mr Luxon giggled nervously in the background, Simeon Brown confronted the press gallery when they asked him about a Public Service Association survey released… [pic.twitter.com/DS1Afvwa2o](https://t.co/DS1Afvwa2o?ref=goodoil.news)
> 
> — The Redbaiter (@TheRedbaiter) [March 3, 2025](https://twitter.com/TheRedbaiter/status/1896487880933179726?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=goodoil.news)

**While Christopher Luxon chuckled in the background, Brown called out the press gallery for reporting partisan distortions designed to embarrass the government.**

The survey, led by PSA head Fleur Fitzsimmons—a former Labour candidate who lost Wellington’s Rongotai seat to the Greens—was sent to 90,000 health workers. Just 1,300 responded, and 85% of those reported feeling stressed. 

The media framed this as “85% of frontline health workers say they are stressed by staff shortages,” conveniently omitting that 98.5% of workers didn’t even bother responding.

Brown didn’t let the distortion slide, pointing out Fitzsimmons’ Labour ties and questioning the survey’s credibility, exposing the press for failing to provide context. 

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