Poverty

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) welcomes today’s housing inquiry report by the Human Rights Commission but says the recommendations alone won’t deliver the right housing to the right people

Poverty targets are mostly on track nationally and for Pākehā children but, if they are to be met for Māori, Pacific and disabled children, much more focused efforts will be needed, says children’s commissioner Frances Eivers

The Ministry of Health added almost 200 more medicines to the schedule from which pharmacist prescribers can prescribe, taking the total to 1713. A media release from the ministry says New Zealand has 37 pharmacist prescribers, largely based in collaborative, multidisciplinary health teams

Every December, at drinks in a workplace I knew well, came the comment: “Well, that was a shit year, let’s hope next year will be better.”

Every December, at drinks in a workplace I knew well, came the comment: “Well, that was a shit year, let’s hope next year will be better.”

The normalisation of child pover­ty is New Zealand’s shameful secret and is creating inter-generational damage, says retired Rotorua paediatrician Johan Morreau.

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is turning its hand to matchmaking. The “Practice to Practice” pilot scheme matches urban practices and GPs with their counterparts in rural and remote Australia

The Government’s new scheme of providing free period products in schools nationwide will be a “circuit breaker”, says Wellington academic Terry Fleming 

The latest Child Poverty Monitor report is calling for bold action to stop COVID-19 making material hardship statistics even worse for New Zealand children  

If rheumatic fever were a Pākehā problem, a solution would have been put in place long ago, says University of Auckland medical anthropologist Anneka Anderson