Health workers needed in rural areas
Recruiting medical professions into rural areas remains a challenge, says a North Canterbury mayor.
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.
For years, our rural healthcare workforce has known intuitively that those in rural areas have poorer health outcomes than those in urban areas, but there has been no clear data to show this.
Symptoms of depression and anxiety have increased dramatically among Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa) youth over the last decade, with widening inequities for Māori (Indigenous population). Increased access to quality timely treatment is essential, but not sufficient to reduce population rates of mental distress.
Monique Jonas for Ki Te Pae Tawhiti, the NZ Health Reform Collective. When newly elected National MP for Rangitata James Meager (Ngai Tahu) addressed the House last December, he spoke of his childhood in South Timaru. He described growing up in hardship and the...
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