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Landings and launchings can be the trickiest of times for paddlers – and sometimes for their landlubber assistants too

The health portfolio shifts into the hands of a medical practitioner in new prime minister Chris Hipkins’ Cabinet reshuffle 

The health minister and GenPro traded barbed letters over funding during the summer holiday season 

Te Whatu Ora has released a paper from 2021 on pay parity in primary care and other government funded services provided by NGOs 

Frustration was evident at a Te Whatu Ora board meeting today over lack of progress in reducing the planned care waiting list 

Former health minister Tony Ryall’s six-hour emergency department target has been recycled back onto the frontline of healthcare measurement reporting 

Māori and Pasifika were less likely than people of other ethnicities to see a GP or nurse for COVID-19, a new study of the illness has found 

A national review of laboratories has been urged by researchers whose audit identified deficiencies in blood-culture practices 

Primary care has been assured funding of COVID-19 care in the community will continue until June 

Primary care, where extra staff have been taken on for COVID-19 community care, wants certainty and advance warning on funding cuts to this programme