Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a condition resulting from gradual damage / degeneration in the language area of brain. People with PPA can have difficulty finding words, understanding ...

On Wednesday 2 April Whitireia and WelTec proudly celebrated the achievements of graduating ākonga (students) from the School of Health and Wellbeing, Pacific Health, Social Practice, and Te Wānanga ...

The Practitioners Supply Order (PSO) list allows health care practitioners to get funded medicines for use in their clinics. Pharmac is also proposing to increase the number of Jadelle contraceptive ...

Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA), in partnership with the Helen Clark Foundation and Transparency International NZ, have today launched Let’s Level the Playing Field, a campaign to end hidden lobbying ...

“This includes a 3.1 per cent increase in the overall number of people who are now accessing primary mental health and addiction services within one week. And a 1.5 per cent increase of Kiwis ...

Abortion care at Whakatāne Hospital has been quietly shelved, with patients told they will likely have to travel more than an hour to Tauranga to get the treatment they need.

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora’s constant restructuring is not only putting the lives of patients at risk but is traumatising staff, New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o ...

Parliament's Justice Committee has released its report into the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill and has recommended it does not proceed. "The call to scrap the bill is common sense and to ...

Membership of the strategy working groups was announced today, drawn from the disabled community, industry and government agencies. The groups will develop actions in the five key areas of education, ...

Associate Health Minister David Seymour is welcoming Cabinet’s decision to enable medicines to be approved in less than 30 days if the product has approval from two recognised overseas jurisdictions.

The first week of March 2025 was clearly ‘Government Health Week’. Every day, there was a new announcement. Dazzling speed meant it was hard to keep up with everything. Gabrielle Baker has been ...

The Ministry of Health’s Director of Mental Health, Dr John Crawshaw, is considering what further action is needed following the receipt of Health New Zealand’s Rapid Incident Review of the Waikato ...