In a significant move to enhance health service planning and delivery across Aotearoa, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora has announced the integration of a transformative information system, the National Data Platform (NDP). Read...
The Government has sacked the Health New Zealand board, replacing it with a commissioner due to concerns over oversight, overspend and a "significant deterioration in financial outlook". Read...
We have known for two decades that our general practitioner (GP) workforce is ageing and heading towards retirement, evidenced by annual RNZCGP workforce surveys. This shortfall is exacerbated by GPs working less hours, experiencing increasing burnout read...
Cancer doctors are welcoming the funding of 13 new cancer drugs, but say with potentially 175,000 cancer patients getting them in the first year, the system for administering them won't cope. Read...
Nurses are a vital part of New Zealand’s health system, but there aren’t enough trained here to meet demand. International recruitment helps fill the gap, but for many, Aotearoa is just one stop on a pathway to somewhere that pays better. Read...
Raising of fees by practices is a tricky issue with backlash....Read more
Explicit government policy about ownership of health services is an important yet missing element in Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system. Policy has not systematically addressed ownership as a health system policy tool since the late 1930s. Read...
Underpaid, understaffed and underappreciated - that's how paramedics describe New Zealand's "dysfunctional" ambulance service. Read more
Applications for money from the Government's new mental health fund will open this month, the Mental Health Minister says. Read more
Target is coming back again to the health system in New Zealand. Read more
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