Health Minister

The idea of rural health training hubs popped out of one minister’s conference speech notes, languished on another minister’s desk, and has now been passed along to Health NZ 

South Auckland healthcare providers say a $188m Budget boost for community healthcare and GPs will help to address the demand for their services

General practice and GPs are virtually invisible in Budget 2022, as is increasingly the case in government discourse about healthcare, says RNZCGP president Sam Murton 

Health minister Andrew Little and associate health minister Peeni Henare are defending the amount spent on Māori health and Pharmac in Budget 2022

Budget 2022 provides secure funding for the future of New Zealand’s health system so every New Zealander can have access to the healthcare they need, no matter where they live
 

Budget 2022: Budget 2022 gives doctors, nurses and other health professionals working in our public health system the resources they need to get on with the job of looking after patients.

Floods in coastal towns, fires in wetlands and ice loss in glaciers have all this year underscored the real and present dangers of a warmer globe

It’s the Government’s Budget month, and the latest quarterly inflation figure is the highest it has been in more than three decades

Floods in coastal towns, fires in wetlands and ice loss in glaciers have all this year underscored the real and present dangers of a warmer globe

Floods in coastal towns, fires in wetlands and ice loss in glaciers have all this year underscored the real and present dangers of a warmer globe