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History Shows Patients At Risk From Physician Associates

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:35:22 +1200 | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

The introduction of physician associates is an unnecessary quick and cheap fix to the doctor shortage when we have a competent and experienced nurse practitioner workforce available to do this work.More >>

Simeon Brown Hid Dunedin Hospital Downgrade

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:38:05 +1200 | New Zealand Labour Party

Simeon Brown then took over as Health Minister and swooped into Dunedin a week later trying to act the hero on the hospital. But he failed to share this important information about downgrading the number of ICU beds, Labour acting health spokesperson Peeni ...More >>

Taupō Hospital Accredited To Train Next Generation Of Rural Doctors

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:02:41 +1200 | New Zealand Government

“Rural generalists can sustainably manage a broad range of patient needs and work within clinical networks to ensure patients get access to specialist teams when required”, Health Minister Simeon Brown says.More >>

Health NZ Disappointed That Association Of Salaried Medical Specialists Strike To Go Ahead

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:40:08 +1200 | RNZ

Hospitals and emergency departments will remain open, and the union is working with Health NZ to ensure life-preserving services continue. More >>

Te Whatu Ora’s Failed Pay Offer Cements Strike Action For Senior Doctors

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:21:35 +1200 | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists

"On an annualised basis, Te Whatu Ora’s offer would increase pay by 0.77 per cent," ASMS executive director Sarah Dalton says. More >>

Whānau Ora Community Clinic Transitions Management Of 116 Browns Road Accommodation Facility

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:14:51 +1200 | Whanau Ora Community Clinic

The mahi at 116 Browns Road, while different in form, has been grounded in a deep sense of duty — to support, uplift, and restore dignity to those in need. More >>

Hanmer War Hospital Brought Back To Life

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:22:47 +1200 | David Hill - Local Democracy Reporter

The former Soldiers' Block in Hanmer Springs has been restored, and a new Culverden war memorial unveiled on Anzac Day. More >>

Work To Finally Begin On Long-Awaited Rangiora After-Hours

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:06:11 +1200 | David Hill - Local Democracy Reporter

Work is set to begin on the promised North Canterbury after-hours medical centre, with a funding agreement confirmed between South Link Health and the Waimakariri District Council.More >>

New Zealand Senior Doctors Vote For National Strike

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:44:08 +1200 | Socialist Equality Group

The strike is part of a growing rebellion by health workers internationally against attacks by capitalist governments, led by the US Trump administration, on public health services.More >>

Health CEO Paid More Than The PM — Then Got A Golden Handshake

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:16:14 +1200 | Taxpayers' Union

While hospitals are under pressure and frontline workers are crying out for resources, the top brass are looking after their own. It’s bureaucratic back-handers at its worst.More >>

New Zealanders Turn To Genetic Testing For Deeper Insight Into Heart Health And DNA Methylation

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:08:05 +1200 | Life X DNA

Life X DNA provides genetic testing for heart disease in the same home-based DNA test kit. This includes analysis of markers associated with cardiovascular issues such as hypertension, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, and heart rate variability.More >>

Auckland Theatre Nurses Strike Over Unpaid Overtime Claim

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 11:05:44 +1200 | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

About 370 perioperative (which includes preoperative, theatre and postoperative) nurses working at Auckland City Hospital, Starship Hospital and Greenlane Clinical Centre will strike for two hours on 1 May.More >>

UN Expert Condemns Attack On Al-Ahli Hospital In Gaza

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:54:11 +1200 | OHCHR

“I am horrified to learn that the war on hospitals, health care providers and civilians continues, making the provision of health services even more impossible in a system that has already been brought to its knees,” Mofokeng said.More >>

Paediatric Society Of New Zealand Launches New Network To Strengthen Child Health Services In Aotearoa

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:36:48 +1200 | Paediatric Society of NZ

This network gives us a chance to rethink care from a mokopuna-centric, whānau-focused, whānau-led perspective. We need to deliver services not just to whānau, but with them – in ways that reflect their needs, aspirations, and mana.More >>

‘Cultural Safety’ Must Not Trump Speech Rights And Qualified Care For Patients

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:34:51 +1200 | Free Speech Union

Practitioners face increasing overreach from regulators that threatens to undermine not only their individual liberties, but the important contribution dissent, debate, and the contest of ideas play in our healthcare sector.More >>

Braemar Hospital Surges Ahead With Surgical Robot

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:18:46 +1200 | Braemar Hospital

Braemar Hospital prides itself on being at the forefront of surgical firsts for the region and across New Zealand, to ensure its community has access to a wide range of safe, high-quality procedures. More >>

Health Infrastructure Plan Ushering In Privatisation Of The Health System

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:13:52 +1200 | PSA

Privatisation will inevitably mean syphoning money off from providing health services for all to pay profits to private corporations. This will result in only those who can pay being able to access adequate health care and other vital services.More >>

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