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The Health Media last night hosted an all-star panel on the design and impact of a fully empowered Māori Heath Authority 

Lack of understanding of south Auckland’s Asian community could limit the success of the upcoming COVID-19 vaccination programme

The Ministry of Health reveals only 4150 of 350,000 MMR vaccines bought last year for a targeted programme have been administered since July 

The Wiri community testing station is offering MMR vaccinations as a boost to the flagging measles catch-up programme

A pattern of poor care contributed to the death of a man being treated by Waitematā DHB says health and disability commissioner Morag McDowell 

“What are you going to do about the Māori smokers who are bringing this on themselves?” It was this loaded question that clearly lay behind commentary provided to researchers on a paper they submitted to the New Zealand Medical Journal

Talk of the need for equity in healthcare provision has turned out to be just that – talk, say Māori and Pacific health providers

Te Oho Mauri runs out of Western Heights Health Centre in a Rotorua suburb rated as the most deprived in New Zealand

Four kaupapa Māori providers have combined as the whānau pai collaborative to offer the Mahi a Atua therapeutic approach to mental wellbeing and addiction

I’m not sure if it counts as home schooling, but as a result of lockdown our two boys (aged eight and ten) can now identify each Doctor by the actor’s name and where they sit in the sequence