June 2025

When regulation, health and tourism ministers teamed up, the result was a surprising prescription: more medical advertising to drive visitor spending. Side effects may include raised eyebrows, writes Barbara Fountain

As trust in health leadership erodes, it’s time for meaningful, bipartisan dialogue on New Zealand’s long-term health strategy, argues Orna McGinn

Paula Rigor is a keen traveller and urgent-care specialist who works for the Hamilton-based Tui Medical group of general practices and urgent-care centres. The Philippines-trained doctor first started working with Tui a decade ago as a medical assistant

Spark Health chief executive John Macaskill-Smith unveiled the latest addition to his marketing toolbox at the National Rural Health Conference in Christchurch – his new shirt

Aotearoa has the worst child mental wellbeing and highest youth suicide rate of 36 OECD and EU countries, according to a new UNICEF report

The health reform weather forecast never predicted the primary care cyclone that has now made landfall in the Bay of Plenty, with storm fronts flicking out around the rest of New Zealand

Twelve-month prescriptions, a new 111 line for mental health and improved hospital buildings were among initiatives to come out of $1.783 billion, over several years, of new health money in Budget 2025

In a pre-Budget announcement, health minister Simeon Brown and rural health minister Matt Doocey unveiled a $164 million package for urgent and after-hours care. Stephen Forbes and Fiona Cassie report

The nurses’ union says it is not giving up on pay equity for primary care nurses despite the “kick in the stomach” scrapping of the current claim and resetting of a higher bar

Reporter Alan Perrott talks to women’s health advocate and distinguished GP fellow Bev Lawton, a reluctant 2025 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year