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Te Whatu Ora is turning its collective mind to the ‘appropriate’ ways for general practices to be structured 

A relief team from Te Aka Whai Ora and kaupapa Māori providers is supporting Ngati Porou Oranga clinics on the North Island east coast following Cyclone Gabrielle 

Work has resumed on the New Zealand Health Charter, now expected to be endorsed by health minister Ayesha Verrall around mid-year 

Two-strain COVID vaccine shots on offer next week, says health minister Ayesha Verrall 

THINK Hauora chair Bruce Stewart has lauded the advances in the organisation’s use of technology to communicate with its MidCentral primary care network

Te Whatu Ora is confident concerns about high-risk COVID patients being missed have been managed in funding cut 

In hindsight, Ayesha Verrall had a good chance of becoming health minister, from the day in June 2020 when it was announced she was standing for Parliament on Labour’s list

The idea of “postcode healthcare” is a kind of political memory prompt. It reminds voters of how bad they felt when dear Aunt Mabel had to wait years for her knee replacement at Dunedin Hospital

Former health minister Tony Ryall’s six-hour emergency department target has been recycled back into front-line reporting as one of Te Whatu Ora’s six “new” performance metrics

A 2021 paper putting the annual cost of pay parity in the State-funded non-government health sector at more than $450 million was released last month