A health economics professor says the Government's new direction for Pharmac could exacerbate existing inequities, with the agency now set to make wider economic and social considerations in its funding for drugs.
The aim of this scoping review was to map the ED-based interventions aimed at improving equity in care for Indigenous patients in EDs.
The Government Policy Statement on Health 2024-27 is the public statement of what Government expects the health system to deliver and achieve, and how success will be measured, monitored, and reported.
Recruiting medical professions into rural areas remains a challenge, says a North Canterbury mayor.
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...
Te Kāhui Tika Tangata, the Human Rights Commission responds to the Government's Budget 2024.
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