Additional funding for primary healthcare is a good thing, even where it is a mix of previous funding decisions, reallocation of other health funding read...
ACT Party leader David Seymour suggests letting people take their share of public health funding to spend on private insurance. Read more
The recent announcement of 1,120 potential redundancies—comprising 470 unfilled vacancies and over 650 staff positions—within Health New Zealand. Read...
The Government has made much of the need to keep frontline services fully functioning, even when costs might be trimmed in the so-called “back office”. Read...
The government’s recent directive that public services should be prioritised “on the basis of need, not race” will make it harder and more time consuming to reach New Zealanders with higher needs. Read...
Over the course of this extraordinary year in New Zealand health policy, I’ve sensed an increasing appetite to question one of the fundamental design principles of our health system – how it is funded Read...
Health Minister Shane Reti has unveiled his prescription for achieving the government's five major health targets within the existing budget - but some experts remain sceptical that it can be done. Read...
Health has been in the headlines recently, for all the wrong reasons. It would be easy to shrug your shoulders and assume that it’s all too complicated and that nothing much can be done. Read...
Shaky grounds for Te Whatu Ora cost-cutting 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