Research and publications
Medical journal articles and other publications
2026
Is health a basic human right or a commodity? Travelling the difficult road towards equity of outcomes
Bagshaw P, Potter JD, Goddard J, McDonald F, Bagshaw S, Roskruge M, Ahirao G
New Zealand Medical Journal · 27 March 2026, 139(1632), pp. 92–100
Cross-sector group outlines blueprint for major health reform
Bagshaw P, Potter JD, Goddard J, McDonald F, Bagshaw S, Roskruge M, Ahirao G
NZ Doctor · 13 July 2026
Funding the rebuild: Why Aotearoa can afford universal healthcare
Potter J, Bagshaw P, Bagshaw S, Kuo S, Ahirao G, Roskruge M, Goddard J, McDonald F
NZ Doctor · 24 August 2026
Finding a new way to ensure a fair go for all in health and welfare
Bagshaw P, Potter J, Goddard J, McDonald F, Bagshaw S, Roskruge M, Ahirao G
Cutting Edge, Aotearoa National Committee RACS · September 2026, pp. 10–11
2025
The common good: reviving our social contract to improve healthcare
Bagshaw P, Potter JD, Hornblow A, Bagshaw S, Frampton C, Campbell R, Ahirao GR, Rosenberg WJ, Barbezat GO, McCall J, Cox B, Roskruge M, Kueppers F
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2 May 2025, 138(1614), pp. 9–13
Colorectal cancer screening in the face of constrained resources and the emerging epidemic among the young
Cox B, Bagshaw P, Potter JD
medRxiv · Preprint posted 24 July 2025
The problem with ten-year private healthcare contracts
Bagshaw P, Potter JD, Bagshaw S
New Zealand Medical Journal · 19 September 2025, 138(1622), pp. 119–120 · Letter
Nurse endoscopists: a rational response to rising rates of young-onset colorectal cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand
Bagshaw P, Potter JD, Griffiths N, Hornblow A, Cox B, Gower K
New Zealand Medical Journal · 24 October 2025, 138(1624), pp. 76–96
2024
Assessing guidelines on the need for colonoscopy after initial flexible sigmoidoscopy in young patients with outlet-type rectal bleeding
Bagshaw PF, Tuck AS, Aramowicz JM, Cox B, Frizelle FA, Church JM
Diseases of the Colon & Rectum · 1 January 2024, 67(1), pp. 160–167
Secondary stressors and counselling within social work practice following disaster
Hay K, Briggs L, Bagshaw S
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work · 2024, 36(1), pp. 19–31
CR020. Addressing unmet healthcare need: The investigation of fresh rectal bleeding in adults under 50 years of age at the Canterbury Charity Hospital Trust
Bagshaw P
ANZ Journal of Surgery · 2024, 94(S1), pp. 27–28
The looming spectres of public-private partnerships for hospitals and the resulting decline of government responsibility for comprehensive secondary healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand
Bagshaw P, Potter JD, Bagshaw S
New Zealand Medical Journal · 23 February 2024, 137(1590), pp. 9–13
The cost of everything and the value of nothing: the first corrective steps are to stop ignoring and start measuring the unmet secondary elective healthcare need
Bagshaw P, Bagshaw S, Potter JD, Hornblow A, Nicholls MJ, Shaw C
New Zealand Medical Journal · 6 September 2024, 137(1602), pp. 143–144 · Letter
2023
Assessment of unmet secondary elective healthcare need—itself in need of acute care in Aotearoa New Zealand
Bagshaw P, Potter JD, Hornblow A, Hudson B, Toop L, Nicholls MG, Frampton C, Bagshaw S, Gauld R, Frizelle F
New Zealand Medical Journal · 3 February 2023, 136(1569), pp. 7–10
Evaluating heart-rate variability metrics as a measure of stress during unsedated medical procedures
Cameron CJ, Pretty CG, Bagshaw P, Aramowicz J, Hayes MP
Proceedings of the ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference · 2023, Paper DETC2023-114621 (V007T07A020)
Non-specific psychological distress following the Christchurch earthquake: 10 years later – How are they doing now?
Briggs L, Hay K, Fronek P, Bagshaw S
Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies · 2023, 27(1), pp. 3–13
Randomized controlled trial of effects of a familiarization video and patient-controlled Entonox inhalation on patient stress levels and clinical efficacy of flexible sigmoidoscopy without analgesia or sedation for investigation of fresh rectal bleeding
Bagshaw P, Cameron C, Aramowicz J, Frampton C, Pretty C
Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology · 6 December 2023
2022
Update on Canterbury Charity Hospital Trust activities 2013 to end of 2020: adapting to changing unmet secondary elective healthcare need
Bagshaw P, Briggs L, Bagshaw S, Levy V, Shaw C, Williamson A, Tuck A, Brown A
New Zealand Medical Journal · 1 April 2022, 135, pp. 37–48
The answer is more investment in health and welfare—not more rationing of healthcare!
Bagshaw P, Bagshaw S, Barnett P, Nicholls G, Gowland S, Shaw C
New Zealand Medical Journal · 1 April 2022, 135, pp. 145–147
Unmet healthcare need and the significance of charity hospitals in Aotearoa New Zealand
Bagshaw P, Barnett P, Bagshaw S
New Zealand Medical Journal · 19 August 2022, 135(1560), pp. 7–11
Changes in oral health-related quality of life following dental care at the Canterbury Charity Hospital
Tay WZ, Broadbent JM, Tay YH, Brown A
New Zealand Dental Journal · December 2022, 118, pp. 128–133
2021
Official Information Act investigation of the Ministry of Health’s process to assess the Southern District Health Board’s readiness to join the National Bowel Screening Programme in 2018
Bagshaw P, Goodman P, Cox C
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2021, 134(1534), pp. 91–105
Guidelines for completion colonoscopy after polyps are found at flexible sigmoidoscopy for investigation of haemorrhoidal-type rectal bleeding
Bagshaw P, Cox B, Frizelle FA, Church JM
Gut · February 2021, 70(2), pp. 441–442
Ministry stops measuring the effect of screening on access to diagnostic colonoscopy
Bagshaw P, Barbezat G, Cox B, Goodman P, McKay D, Pfeifer M, Vining M
New Zealand Medical Journal · 8 October 2021, 134(1543), pp. 145–146
2020
Enhancing bowel screening: preventing colorectal cancer by flexible sigmoidoscopy in New Zealand
Cox B, Sneyd MJ, Hingston G, McBride D, Bagshaw PF
Public Health · 2020, 179, pp. 27–37
Neoliberalism: what it is; how it affects health; and what to do about it
Barnett P, Bagshaw P
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2020, 133(1512), pp. 76–84
Guidelines for completion colonoscopy after polyps are found at flexible sigmoidoscopy for investigation of haemorrhoidal-type rectal bleeding
Bagshaw PF, Cox B, Frizelle FA, Church JM
Gut · 2 June 2020, 0, p. 1 · Letter (early publication)
Towards a better world after Covid-19
Bagshaw P, Bagshaw S
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2020, 133(1516), pp. 100–101
Towards a better world after Covid-19: a synopsis for the Digest
Bagshaw P, Bagshaw S
NZMJ Digest · 2020, 94, pp. 1–4
Resurrecting New Zealand's public health care system or a charity hospital in every town?
Nicholls MG, Frampton CM, Bagshaw PF
Internal Medicine Journal · 2020, 50(7), pp. 883–886
Adequacy of publicly funded colonoscopy services in New Zealand
Bagshaw P, Cox B
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2020, 133(1526), pp. 7–11
2019
Code of Rights and bowel screening
Cox B, Bagshaw P, Talbot A, Sneyd MJ
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2019, 132(1497), pp. 78–79
2018
Postdisaster counselling: personal, professional, and ethical issues
Cooper L, Briggs L, Bagshaw S
Australian Social Work · 2018
Unmet health-care need
Bagshaw P, Hudson B
Journal of Primary Health Care · 2018, 10(2), pp. 179–180
A new report on the effects of a policy used to restrict access to elective inguinal hernia surgery
Bagshaw P
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2018, 131(1480), pp. 94–95
Can colonoscopy at peripheral day hospitals meet internationally accepted quality and safety standards?
Lamba M, Ding S
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2018, 131(1484), pp. 26–29
2017
Pilot study of methods for assessing unmet secondary health care need in New Zealand
Bagshaw P, Bagshaw S, Frampton C, Gauld R, Green T, Harris C, Hornblow A, Hudson B, Raymont A, Richardson A, Shaw C, Toop L
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2017, 130, pp. 23–38
Physician advocacy in Western medicine: a twenty-first century challenge
Bagshaw P, Barnett P
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2017, 130, pp. 83–89
2016
The Christchurch earthquakes: responding to the mental health needs of a community under stress
Briggs L, Bagshaw S, Cooper L
In Global Challenges and Cultural Psychiatry, edited by Sergio J Villase-Bayardo, Renato D Alarcon, Hans Roholf and Patricia Aceves · World Association of Cultural Psychiatry and University of Guadalajara, 2016
Funding New Zealand’s public healthcare system: time for an honest appraisal and a public debate
Keene L, Bagshaw P, Nicholls GM, Rosenburg B, Frampton CM, Powell I
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2016, 129, pp. 10–20
The clinical consequences of underfunding elective healthcare: a second red flag warning
Bagshaw P
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2016, 129(1440), pp. 135–136
2015
What should be the management policy for asymptomatic inguinal hernias?
Bagshaw PF
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2015, 128, pp. 83–88
Open inguinal hernia repair using polypropylene mesh: a patient reported survey of long-term outcomes
Bagshaw P, Weller S, Shaw C, Frampton C
Journal of Current Surgery · 2015, 5(2–3), pp. 165–170
Care, compassion and charity: do they have a place in modern medicine?
Paterson R
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2015, 128, pp. 47–54
2014
The importance of measuring unmet healthcare needs
Gauld R, Raymont A, Bagshaw PF, Nicholls MG, Frampton CM
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2014, 127, pp. 63–67
2013
Canterbury wellbeing index June 2013 (updated December 2013)
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority
Canterbury wellbeing index · Christchurch: Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority, 2013 (updated December 2013)
Personal reflections: what happens when disaster hits?
Briggs L, Roark MH
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work · 2013, 25, pp. 98–104
Psychological responses after a major, fatal earthquake: the effect of peritraumatic dissociation and posttraumatic stress symptoms on anxiety and depression
Duncan E, Dorahy MJ, Hanna D, Bagshaw S, Blampied N
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation · 2013, 14, pp. 501–518
The Canterbury Charity Hospital: an update (2010–2012) and effects of the earthquakes
Bagshaw PF, Maimbo-M’siska M, Nicholls MG, Shaw CG, Allardyce RA, Bagshaw SN, McNabb AL, Johnson SS, Frampton CM, Stokes BW
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2013, 126, pp. 31–42
The Canterbury Charity Hospital: facing the challenge of unmet need in healthcare
Pfeifer M
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2013, 126, pp. 9–11
2010
Patients “falling through the cracks”. The Canterbury Charity Hospital: initial progress report
Bagshaw PF, Allardyce RA, Bagshaw SN, Stokes BW, Shaw CS, Proffit LJ, Nicholls MG, Begg EJ, Frampton CM
New Zealand Medical Journal · 2010, 123, pp. 58–66
