In Aotearoa New Zealand, primary care is organised by enrolling patients with a primary care provider. However, the benefits of this arrangement are frustrated when providers “close their books” due to insufficient capacity for new patients. Read...
Ministry of Justice 2024. The Ministry of Health will lead a strong and focused monitoring approach for health targets, as part of its wider responsibility for monitoring the health system. Read...
SCOOP Health. New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) is extremely disappointed by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora’s decision not to match graduates into their nursing workforce. Read...
RNZ. New Zealand is not training enough surgeons, while also facing significant attrition of the workforce, according to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Read...
Ministry of Health. In 2023, the Ministry of Health, with the support of Health New Zealand, commissioned Allen + Clarke, working with the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, to review the use of the alcohol levy and its function under the new Pae Ora...
The purpose of this Act is to provide for the public funding and provision of services in order to—
(a) protect, promote, and improve the health of all New Zealanders; and
(b) achieve equity in health outcomes among New Zealand’s population groups, including by striving to eliminate health disparities, in particular for Māori; and
(c) build towards pae ora (healthy futures) for all New Zealanders.
Ministry of Health 2022. This Cabinet paper and attachments include five final drafts, and one provisional draft version (Disabled People Strategy) of the Pae Ora Strategies for improving the health status of New Zealanders. Read...
Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health – Manatū Hauora has developed a snapshot report to monitor the progress the health system is making on delivery against the Interim Government Policy Statement on Health 2022–2024 (iGPS). Read...
RNZ. An ACC lawyer and advocate is taking legal action against ACC, saying injured claimants are losing jobs and homes while they wait more than six months to have disputed decisions reviewed and resolved. Read...
NZ Doctor. Far fewer children are getting the flu vaccine this winter, after the removal of funding. The breakdown for ethnicity shows that the vaccination numbers had fallen especially for Māori children. Read...
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