Fees for providing end-of-life services will have to meet a delicate balance between covering providers’ costs and not being an income stream or discouraging palliative care
Poverty, poor communication, and lack of cultural understanding set Pacific peoples up for bad health outcomes, says a review of Pacific health in New Zealand
A community health support worker most likely lied about visiting an elderly male client, who was later found on the floor of his bedroom and subsequently died in hospital
An Auckland DHB report has come under fire for questioning the effectiveness of school-based throat-swabbing as a preventive measure for acute rheumatic fever
An Auckland DHB report has come under fire for questioning the effectiveness of school-based throat-swabbing as a preventive measure for acute rheumatic fever
Inequities in the healthcare provided to Pacific peoples and the poor outcomes that result are “a national shame”, says a new stocktake of the health of New Zealand’s Pacific community
The failure to follow up on both conditions identified in a radiology report led to a Taranaki DHB patient later being diagnosed with terminal cancer of the bile duct
Failure to involve mainstream providers in the targeted Māori COVID-19 vaccination rollout threatens an outbreak as deadly as that in Fiji, National Hauora Coalition’s Rawiri McKree Jansen says
