As healthcare crisis worsens, New Zealand government pushes for privatisation
NZ’s right-wing government is exploiting the crisis of unmet need, caused by decades of underfunding of public healthcare, to ...
'Significant failings': Health NZ apologises after 11yo injected twice in mistaken identity case
Findings of a Health New Zealand investigation into a mistaken identity incident involving an 11-year-old girl have been ...
New tech to help doctors reduce risks from antibiotic resistance crisis
The project will prompt doctors to prescribe more safely, to reduce the looming risk of antimicrobial resistance, which one professor describes as: "A silent pandemic that is occurring globally." ...
New Zealand facing crisis in paediatric palliative care as sole specialist on leave
In addition to the absence of the specialist doctor, a clinical nurse specialist within Starship's paediatric palliative care ...
Getting NZ’s healthcare system patient-centric and back to basics – Simeon Brown
After years of declining services, longer wait lists and endless excuses, it is time to get our healthcare system refocused ...
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"Vicious cycle": Primary healthcare struggles to stretch funding
Primary healthcare appears to be bearing the brunt of a vicious funding cycle. New Royal New Zealand College of GPs research shows the sector's facing financial neglect, receiving just 5.4% of ...
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New Zealand facing crisis in paediatric palliative care as hospital’s sole specialist on leave
Auckland Council will decide if an upgraded Eden Park or a new stadium will be the city's national stadium and Auckland Transport struggles to collect bus and transit lane fines. Fears are growing ...