The media release issued today from the Health Research Council (HRC), Te Aho o Te Kahu (the Cancer Control Agency) and the Ministry of Health announces $6.2 million in funding for research aimed at ...

A new innovative partnership will help to improve the physical health and wellbeing of Māori and Pacific communities in South Auckland. The Ministry of Health is committing $500,000 in funding over ...

Distinguished public servant and former diplomat Sir Maarten Wevers will lead the independent review into the disability support services administered by the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha.

After years of research, collaborative planning and a full refit, the former maternity unit at Whangarei Hospital has been rebirthed as Te Wāhi Tirohia Oranga Whēkau, Northland DHBs new Endoscopy ...

The Major Trauma National Clinical Network strongly opposes boxing which is a public expression of interpersonal violence. Recently we have seen unnecessary death and preventable severe brain injury ...

New research published today by the Journal of Primary Health Care, which is produced by The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners shows that the New Zealand health system is not well set ...

Today Te Pātaka Whaioranga - Pharmac is beginning a consultation to better understand how phasing out the funding of food thickeners in the community would affect people who use them. Pharmac’s chief ...

Pharmac has today updated health care professionals that supply of quinapril with hydrochlorothiazide (branded as Accuretic), from supplier Pfizer, will be disrupted due to the detection of a ...

Asthma and Respiratory Foundation’s (ARFNZ) annual Breathe Better September campaign is off to a flying start with more than 50 teams and individuals having already signed up to complete a ‘Better ...

The Health and Disability Commissioner has acknowledged the progress made since the publication of her Commissioner Initiated Investigation (CII) into Southern Blood and Cancer Services (SBCS) in ...

The Government continues to deliver on its promise to improve access to mental wellbeing services by expanding the school-based Mana Ake wellbeing programme to more than three thousand primary and ...

Juan Pablo Vaquero was pronounced dead in the Peruvian Amazonian city of Iquitos in the first wave of COVID-19 in April 2020. His sister wasn’t allowed to see his body. Three days later he appeared at ...