NZHIT welcomes the news that more than $500m has been appropriated toward capital infrastructure in the health sector with most of that going towards a new health IT system to link patient records
Pū Manawa Aotearoa, a recently formed network of health practitioners, researchers, and non-government organisations, is calling on the Government for urgent action on rheumatic fever in New Zealand
A massive gap in public health service purchasing, at just 2.1 percent of the health budget, shows other core public health investment has been dwarfed by the needed $1.4 billion COVID-19 vaccination rollout
Talk of a graduate student mental health crisis is abundant in academic and popular media, but a University of Otago study has found no evidence of one in New Zealand
Family Planning has welcomed the funding boost announced in today’s budget saying it’s good news for our clients and and is an explicit acknowledgement of our work as Aotearoa New Zealand’s only national provider of sexual and reproductive health services for primary health and sexual health promotion
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes the income support increases announced today by the Government, saying the rises will be a good step towards income adequacy for many children in need
Yet again, the Budget has ignored rest homes, accelerating already dire nursing shortages, putting more pressure on already overworked staff and having flow-on impacts for the healthcare system, says the New Zealand Aged Care Association (NZACA)
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Media release from the New Zealand Aged Care Association
"Not surprised" but with "glimmers of hope" is how the President of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has described her reaction to today’s Budget 2021
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