Speaking at today’s press briefing, Minister Seymour emphasised that delivering timely and equitable access to medicines ...

The Health New Zealand Board will take over from the current Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners, who were appointed last year to stabilise the health agency.

New Zealand already has one of the worst occupational health and safety records, per head of population, among OECD nations.

The reforms will mean that for the first time, New Zealand will have a truly national health system, and the kind of treatment people get will no longer be determined by where they live, he said.

Although the new system - Health New Zealand - will mean Chandler's role will end, The health reforms mean district health board members' roles will also be disestablished.

New Zealand Northland Auckland Wellington Canterbury Otago / Queenstown Nelson-Tasman Best NZ beaches; ... Health reforms: Problems get worse as $11b shake-up yet to help struggling sector.

New Zealand’s once-in-a-generation health reforms offer a logical time to undertake workforce reforms. We need to learn from our own historical mistakes and avoid disconnecting the workforce ...

Federal Health Minister Mustafa Kamal said on Monday that Pakistan's population is increasing annually by as much as New ...

“I thought that New Zealand was at a point where we were able to talk about drug policy in a different way – a more scientific, measured way. But that’s obviously not the case.” ...

Public health modelling conducted in 2022 had shown the Smokefree policy would have saved New Zealand's health system about US$1.3bn (£630m) over the next 20 years.

The results led to the New Zealand government in 2011 setting one of the most daring public health targets in the world: a Smokefree country by 2025, with smoking prevalence under 5%.

LONDON — Health and tobacco campaigners said Monday that New Zealand’s plan to repeal laws that would ban tobacco sales for future generations threatened lives and put international efforts to ...