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South Seas Healthcare has survived a “David and Goliath” battle and is looking at celebrating like it’s 2024 all over again, says board chair Aupito Tofae Su’a William Sio

A new unit within Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission is potentially working to replace the current health system reset plan

Reporter Alan Perrott looks at the life, times and trials of a GP working, well, somewhere or other

A recent HDC decision has called attention to service pressures, only for Te Whatu Ora to push back, arguing that monitoring access to care is the ministry’s role, a dispute that highlights wider concerns over accountability, resource allocation and oversight limits in the healthcare system. Alan Perrott reports

Money is both the problem and the solution to Northland’s health struggles, says Mahitahi Hauora chief executive Jensen Webber

The prime minister’s belief that nurses can do the work of GPs is “dumb on steroids”, says General Practitioners Aotearoa chair Buzz Burrell  

A woman claims staff at a Bupa New Zealand-run care home ignored her complaints for several days until maggots were discovered in a wound on her right leg  

Audrey Sonerson, secretary for transport and chief executive at the Ministry of Transport, has temporarily taken on the role of acting director-general of health

Speculation is rife over who has been tapped for inclusion in the health minister’s mysterious Health Assurance Unit  

A taskforce has been established to review and potentially replace the health system reset plan put forward by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora commissioner Lester Levy