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Based on his CV, Simeon Brown couldn’t have been considered a frontrunner to replace Shane Reti as health minister. Stephen Forbes hunts down some background on the new leader for health 

Systemic failures in the health system are being blamed for the death of a child from whooping cough over the Christmas period by the chair of the National Immunisation Taskforce, Owen Sinclair

The mooted introduction of copayment charges for lab testing services has been ruled out by health minister Shane Reti, despite lobbying from private-sector providers to allow this

A briefing paper to health minister shows private lab providers have been lobbying the Government to allow copayment charges for lab tests and services

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is hunting for a chief executive to potentially replace Margie Apa. 

Mid-shift and dressed in scrubs, emergency medicine specialist Ryan Paganelli today told Parliament’s health select committee that talk of vaping as a smoking cessation tool should cease, as users are merely swapping one addiction for another

A rogue Australian telehealth provider has pulled out of the New Zealand market after receiving a warning from Medsafe

Te Whatu Ora has today released a batch of financial papers with the aim of spelling out the reasons behind its current financial position

The Mental Health Foundation is welcoming a government bill expected to replace the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992, which foundation chief executive Shaun Robinson says is past its use-by-date

A health IT leader is urging the country’s main PMS providers to collaborate and fix the ailing GP2GP system causing headaches for primary care providers nationwide