MCNZ Missing in Action: Where Do You Turn When No One Will Engage?

As a group of doctors, many of us in NZDSOS have had concerns about the covid response since very early in 2020.  We have tried individually and collectively to engage with authorities to get answers to important questions, in particular relating to harm that we realised was being done to the population of New Zealand.

Apart from a couple of inadequate responses early on, most attempts at communication have been ignored and the issues of concern remain unaddressed.

At Dr Shelton’s recent HPDT hearing (where the charges related to his public speech) an important question was asked by the panel to the PCC experts: “What should Dr Shelton have done if he had concerns?”

Dr Janine Paynter said he should have published peer-reviewed papers and put them for discussion amongst international experts. Like this one, three years in the making and then roundly ignored?

Dr Nikki Turner was more reasonable and advised that he should have spoken to the MCNZ, among other entities, but conceded that if he had exhausted all avenues, it was reasonable to go to the public. 

On its website the MCNZ states:  “Our primary purpose is to protect patients and the public”

Since 2020 some New Zealanders have been trying to get the MCNZ to protect the public from harm caused by the covid response, in particular covid injections. NZDSOS has written multiple times with many serious concerns, clearly treated as vexatious and time-wasting whilst ignoring such calamities as ethical violations, sudden deaths in the young, potentially cancer-causing plasmid DNA contamination and a brand new blood clotting disease since the mRNA rollout. 

In October 2025 over 1800 people wrote to the MCNZ and a group of us personally delivered these letters, along with our official letter, to the MCNZ staff in Wellington.  

It was made clear our cold call was not welcome and that we should have made an appointment. 

Since then we have been trying to arrange an in-person meeting with MCNZ leadership to discuss our grave concerns about the damage the mRNA injections have done and continue to do to the health of Kiwis.  We have been stonewalled at every turn.

The final straw is that even though the new Chair Dr Kenneth Clark – also chair of Mid-central DHB – has been more communicative and receptive to the idea of a meeting than former Chair Dr Rachelle Love, he has recently stated it would not be “proper” until the verdict in Dr Shelton’s tribunal is released.  We all know that will be months, if not a year away.  

Is it proper that many more New Zealanders will fail to be protected in that time?

Anyway, we responded that Dr Shelton need not be part of any meeting, and NZDSOS’s hundreds of other doctor members have concerns about patient safety that are beyond urgent and they demand their regulator’s involvement. 

Finally, we note that the two new Minister-appointed MCNZ members are also in the Free Speech Union. So, perhaps their interest in open dialogue and the right of the public to receive information might encourage a shift in MCNZ attitudes to whistleblowers. 

Below is a chart of our attempts to secure a meeting.  Below that are the letters between us and MCNZ.