Budget 2020

A collection of links to material related to Budgets past and present

Delays and secrecy surround the employment arrangements for practitioners who provide maternity care in the community  

GPs fear changes proposed to maternity services arrangements could “dumb down” their role in antenatal care

GPs fear primary maternity services notice review may reduce and “dumb down” their role in antenatal care

Health professionals and consumers have until November to submit feedback on the Ministry of Health’s review of the Section 88 Primary Maternity Services Notice 

Period poverty advocate and researcher Sarah Donovan’s application to fund sanitary products was in part a lever to get the issue of period poverty in New Zealand noticed

DHBs have been told they may well get extra time for filing their annual reports, but their finances are to receive closer scrutiny

After four years of campaigning, public health researcher Sarah Donovan is celebrating the Government’s recently announced action against period poverty in New Zealand

The Ministry of Health is turning its attention back to programmes that, like the rural training hubs proposal, were paused in the pandemic