The Health Minister admits the public health system is still in “crisis” as rural hospitals struggle with staff shortages and Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora’s financial position comes under further scrutiny.
A survivor of abuse in a faith-based institution wants a Pacific specific redress pathway.
The final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care challenges the coalition government with its call to honour te Tiriti o Waitangi amid a backdrop of systemic racism and historical abuse.
Survivors travelled to Parliament to see the report revealed, five-and-a-half years after its terms of reference were announced, and decades after survivors first advocated for redress.
Health services struggle to provide affordable and nondiscriminatory healthcare to Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow whānau, according to the latest NZ Health Survey.
Stuff. On Budget Day as thousands outside Parliament and around the nation protested the government's policies and how they apply to Māori, Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivered her first Budget. Asked whether the Budget this year which cut about $250 million...
Stuff. A team-based approach to GP care that has proved a success in two rural Taranaki communities could help cure some of the country’s healthcare issues, one of the doctor’s behind the method says. Dr Nick Loveridge-Easther, one of three GPs who own Coastal...
NZ Herald. Government spending on health services is a large part of political debate, not least at Budget time. That is because it involves big numbers and because it is such a personal matter of interest for so many of us who use or work in the health services....
RNZ. Total funding for Pacific Peoples has been slashed by about NZ$26 million in this year's New Zealand Budget - but a Pacific community leader says he's not surprised. "In 2024/25, total baseline funding for Vote Pacific Peoples is just over $90.2 million," a...
NZ Doctor. Aside from a glaring hole where new funding for Pacific providers should be, there are no surprises in the Vote Health section of the 2024 Budget, says public health academic Sir Collin Tukuitonga. Read more...
HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS
EQUITY
Exploring the impacts of the health system on minorities within the population, notably including Māori, Pacifica, Asians and LGBTQI.
DRUGS, DEVICE AND DIAGNOSTICS
PUBLIC HEALTH
DIGITAL HEALTH
TE TIRITI