The risk of an increasingly privatised healthcare system is deeply inequitable care, and some fear we could be moving toward a US model
Frances Matthews questions the ‘warehousing’ approach for older adults needing care and suggests an ACC-style scheme might be the answer to funding
Temperatures rising under climate change are putting our youngest increasingly at risk of life-long health problems, scientists warn.
Mental health in Pasifika communities is an urgent but often stigmatised topic, clouded by feelings of taboo, shame, and confusion.
South Seas Healthcare has confirmed it is the practice under threat of closure due to massive clawbacks sought by Te Whatu Ora.
Hansard Report of the Dunedin Hospital Urgent Debate
A South Taranaki iwi says Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora’s decision to axe free rapid antigen tests (RATs) will have a negative impact on the community.
Public health physicians have labelled a recent Government directive that public services be prioritised on need rather than ethnicity as “an affront to scientific and public health knowledge”.
Despite the collective and consistent warnings about the consequences of successive years of underfunding, primary care was not prioritised.
Anger is rising over Te Whatu Ora efforts to claw COVID-19 funding back from Pacific practices in south Auckland.
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