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Oral cancer is known for its high mortality rate in developing countries, but an international team of scientists hope its latest discovery will change that

Phew is the reaction from Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) to the news that the Employment Relations Authority will undertake a ‘facilitation’ of the long-running toxic industrial dispute between the 20 district health boards (DHBs) and the Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) representing resident (junior) doctors

The parties to the NZRDA/20 DHBs collective bargaining have been advised this afternoon that the NZRDA’s application for facilitation by the Employment Relations Authority has been successful

Health Minister David Clark has congratulated the midwives’ unions, DHBs, and the Ministry of Health for agreeing a joint accord to help ensure safe and sustainable staffing levels in our public hospitals

Midwives employed by DHBs have voted overwhelmingly YES to a pay settlement

I am pleased to report that due to extraordinary efforts from a large team who have worked to dry-out and fix the damage caused by flooding inside the new Outpatients building, most of the building will reopen to the public on Monday 15 April

The latest Report on Maternity has been released, showing the rate of teenage pregnancies has halved in the past decade

Cancer advocate and campaigner, Leisa Renwick has been unveiled as Skin Cancer College Australasia’s New Zealand ambassador

Last Friday, a group of over 120 people gathered on a cold, blustery Autumn night in a hall above a burnt out pub on Bedford Street in Cannons Creek, Porirua, to hear about a ground-breaking project to change health outcomes in one of the neediest Pacific communities in New Zealand

Ongoing efforts by maternal mental health specialists and the Women’s Health Service are seeing more expectant mothers receiving the support they need