Recently, the offer of free dental treatment in the Whanganui/Ruapehu region attracted hundreds of people - and highlighted how difficult it is for people living in rural or remote communities to access care.
The Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024 sets out who we are and what we do, how we manage our business, our financial statements and statement of service performance as specified in Vote Health – Main Estimates of Appropriation 2023/24 and (where updated) in Vote Health – Supplementary Estimates of Appropriation 2023/24.
The document sets out the Ministry’s own strategic focus, functions and priorities aligned and contributing to, but distinct from those of the Government.
he National Bowel Screening Programme (NBSP) fails to deliver screening equitably to Pacific New Zealanders. This research explored Tongan New Zealanders' experiences of participating in the NBSP and their views on ensuring the programme works well for the Tongan community.
Researchers are calling for more kaupapa Māori targeted public health interventions, after a study found Māori and Pacific women are disproportionately affected by suicide involving heavy alcohol use.
The National Bowel Screening Programme is failing to deliver screening equitably to Pacific New Zealanders, but there are ways to improve it, research led by the University of Otago, Wellington has found.
Rest home-level care is increasingly unaffordable for ageing NZers, yet with the numbers in need set to soar, the sums don’t add up for providing more beds.
When prime minister Christopher Luxon criticised doctors for prioritising young Māori and Pasifika patients, he called it a matter of need, not ethnicity. But if healthcare isn’t based on ethnicity, how will we truly capture those with the highest need, ponders Lucy O’Hagan
Te Whatu Ora is accused of destroying its relationship with Pacific healthcare providers by retrospectively auditing funding provided during the COVID-19 response in south Auckland.
The coalition government has launched “an attack on science and good medical practice” by directing agencies to downplay ethnicity as a marker of need, say a group of health professionals.
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