In his state-of-the-nation speech last week, ACT Party leader David Seymour advised New Zealanders to “get past their squeamishness about privatisation” and ask themselves: ...

The patient's complaint was submitted via the Nationwide Health and Disability Advocacy Service and regarded the massage therapist’s alleged unprofessional behaviour during the massage, including ...

A patient raised concerns to HDC that a lesion in her right lung was missed in both her 2017 and 2019 chest X-rays and was discovered only in 2021, which led to a delayed diagnosis of pulmonary ...

On Friday, in Associate Minister of Health David Seymour’s State of the Nation speech, he floated the idea of giving New Zealanders the option of opting out of the public health system.

"The Minister has had a week of briefings from officials and knows the issues so should start delivering straight away and lift the hiring freeze on the health workforce," said Duane Leo, National ...

"The ‘back-to-school effect’ is greater than the ‘winter effect’ when it comes to children’s respiratory disease with the risk of hospitalisation two and a half times higher on the peak day in the ...

“In New Zealand, the MMR vaccine is given to babies at 12 months and 15 months of age. However, if you’re travelling to a country with an active measles outbreak and your baby is less than 12 months ...

Based on his CV, Simeon Brown couldn’t have been considered a frontrunner to replace Shane Reti as health minister. Stephen ...

The WHO is a United Nations agency that aims to expand universal health coverage, coordinates responses to health emergencies ...

Jones shares his findings on what brings joy to GPs, with the hope that you too will search out joy and build it up in the ...

However, prime minister Christopher Luxon’s explanation for the move, as part of a Cabinet reshuffle which sees transport ...

Ka Ora, the rural after-hours telehealth provider, received a record 1943 calls on 2 January. Prescription renewals were the ...