Pinnacle acknowledges today’s government announcement lowering the age of eligibility for free bowel screening to 58 as a positive step toward earlier cancer detection. However, discontinuing the ...

Government changes to bowel screening eligibility will leave more Māori and Pacific people at risk of dying at a younger age from bowel cancer, New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi ...

Tairāwhiti is still developing their approach, it expects to expand Hospital and Specialist Services to support the mental health needs of young people in their region. “This is an example of the ...

“This means free bowel screening will become available to all New Zealanders from the ages of 58 to 74,” Health Minister Simeon Brown says. “Lowering the age of eligibility from 60 to 58 will see ...

Nurse Practitioners New Zealand commends Prime Minister Luxon and Health Minister Simeon Brown for publicly acknowledging the need for, and committing to, increased funding for our strained healthcare ...

Leading healthcare provider, ProCare, has today welcomed the Health Minister’s announcement to increase the number of training places for nurse practitioners specialising in primary care to 120 a year ...

The government’s announcements this week of support for more locally trained doctors and nurses to work in primary care are welcomed by the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical and Health ...

Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey says funding from the Mental Health Innovation Fund will support an additional 560 young people in Rotorua to get mental health and addiction support and help ...

Health Minister Simeon Brown announced this week that Health New Zealand would provide a $285 million “uplift for general practice over three years”. General Practitioners Aotearoa (GPA) is very happy ...

His figures are roughly correct. That $6000 represents about 80 per cent of all spending on health and ACC, with the other 20 ...

Increase the number of training places for nurse practitioners specialising in primary care to 120 a year. “New Zealand nurses already have the expertise to provide high-quality care in local ...

Leading healthcare provider, ProCare, has today welcomed the Health Minister’s announcement around the funding uplift for primary care, as the sector has been underfunded for a number of years now.