“Fourteen months in Christopher Luxon’s Government has brought in chaotic changes to leadership: firing his first Health Minister and the Health New Zealand board, and now seeing off the chief ...

Health Minister Simeon Brown has today thanked outgoing Health New Zealand Chief Executive Fepulea’i Margie Apa for her service.

Margie took on the role in February 2022 as interim CEO and then, from 1 July 2022, for a fixed term to support the shift from the previous DHB environment to a unified healthcare system.

The Government has appointed Hon Paul Davison KC as an independent arbiter to determine financial redress for survivors tortured at the Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital Child and Adolescent Unit (the ...

It’s hard to see Cathy O’Malley as the retiring type. Sure, she’s cut the formal ties to being a senior government health ...

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The Commerce Commission today issued a compliance advice letter to the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO), following an investigation into concerns the professional ...

Lucy O’Hagan reviews The Science of Miracles and hears a call for doctors to embrace healing beyond the confines of ...

Healthcare services across many parts of New Zealand are likely to be significantly impacted for the next few days due to industrial action by APEX union pathology workers says NZ Pathology. Union ...

Since the establishment of the ProCare Charitable Foundation, it has granted more than $2 million in funding to increase community health and wellbeing in the Greater Auckland Region. Recipients of ...

From February 12, all newborn babies will be offered screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare progressive neuromuscular disease. SMA will be one of more than 20 other rare disorders ...

Delays in diagnosing a man’s cancer diagnosis led to finger amputation, lymph node removal and radiation therapy. The HDC ...