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 ...

"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 ...

“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 ...

"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 ...

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 first Māori-owned one-stop-shop for youth in Aotearoa, The 502 opened in 2021. Now with close to 1000 patientson its books and a new location, the ‘home away fromhome’ has gained the trust of it ...

Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) has been met with dismay in the public health field. Some have called one of the US president’s first ...

New Zealanders who smoke and those who have recently quit smoking have expressed high levels of support for the creation of a ‘smokefree generation’ and of making cigarettes non-addictive by taking ...

New Zealanders who smoke and those who have recently quit smoking have expressed high levels of support for the creation of a ‘smokefree generation’ and of making cigarettes non-addictive by taking ...