Even if localities end up a four-letter word, Golden Bay Community Health remains a textbook example of community-driven healthcare in action.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is defending his approach to addressing issues within New Zealand’s health system as he expresses his sadness over the death of a woman in Rotorua Hospital’s emergency department.
The prime minister is accusing Hawke's Bay health professionals of being "out of line" for prioritising young Māori and Pasifika.
Young Māori and Pasifika in Hawke’s Bay are no longer eligible on the basis of their ethnicity to receive some free healthcare services after the Health Minister intervened and demanded the policy be changed.
New Zealand's ongoing housing crisis is fuelling high rates of rheumatic fever among Māori and Pacific peoples, says epidemiologist Dr Jason Gurney.
Health New Zealand has denied accusations that it has shut the aged-care sector out of its planning for future models of care, saying it is still exploring various options.
The Aged Care Association is warning that plans to cut 200,000 hospital bed nights a year to save money could be disastrous for elderly people without the means to pay for private care.
Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling on Christopher Luxon to keep his hands off of freshwater protections in the wake of the Government’s announcement today of plans to replace the National Policy Statement on Freshwater and ‘clarify’ New Zealand’s drinking water standards.
The clinic’s community liaison manager, Lorenzo Kaisara, said the queue had progressively got worse in the five years he’d worked there.
Health outcomes for people in rural areas aren’t as good as those in the bigger centres, hence the need for skilled professionals who have the ability to do a little bit of everything but can also recognise when their patients need more specialist care.
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Exploring the impacts of the health system on minorities within the population, notably including Māori, Pacifica, Asians and LGBTQI.
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