Although the report is generally positive, it does highlight some continuing challenges for the health sector, such as our ageing population and gaps in health outcomes for some population groups
121 places on the Nurse Practitioner Training Programme (NPTP) will be fully funded in 2024 by Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora – a 51.3% increase compared to last year
Te Whatu Ora – Health NZ chief executive Margie Apa says the agency has identified 12,000 people affected by an unauthorised data breach by a former staff member and has now started the process of contacting them
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora has today started the process of notifying individuals impacted by the alleged unauthorised data release by a former staff member
New Zealand Nurses Organisation Toputanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) members employed by Te Whatu Ora are furious after almost eight years of delay in their employer’s failure to fix $1.95b worth of unpaid holiday pay and other leave they are owed
Te Whatu Orahas allowed 25 practices to switch to the National Hauora Coalition PHO and left the door ajar to 29 more it has prevented from making the change
Director-general of health Diana Sarfati says some of the most significant challenges the country’s health system faces result from a growing population that is getting older, and the same trend is seen worldwide
A “flagship” programme to build multidisciplinary general practice teams with more than 500 new staff will end not long after it has been widely implemented, a disappointed PHO clinical director says
On our piece on University of Otago researcher, dean and head of campus Suzanne Pitama’s latest editorial in the New Zealand Medical Journal, medical educator and specialist GP Lucy O’Hagan says: “The problem is we have no idea about the people who are not coming to GP or not coming back
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management