Southern Cross Health Trust has made a three-year commitment to fund key nursing positions at the Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch City Missions, supporting vital healthcare for those most in ...

It is not as headline-grabbing, but investing in long-term social media education for young people instead of pursuing a blanket ban for under-16s will reap better results. So says the New Zealand ...

The BMA has shared “heartbreaking” stories from GPs who are struggling to find any or enough work in the NHS, as the unemployment crisis in general practice deepens. Speaking at the UK Local Medical ...

Health Coalition Aotearoa strongly supports Dr Ayesha Verrall’s new Tobacco Transparency Bill, launched this week, which - if supported by a majority of MPs - will help protect public health policy ...

Pharmac is funding more medicines for people with skin cancer (melanoma), from 1 June 2025. The decision includes widening access to pembrolizumab (branded as Keytruda) and funding dabrafenib (branded ...

Reporter Alan Perrott talks to an ex-cop who is devoting his life to delivering healthcare and change into the heart of Bay of Plenty’s gang culture ...

A groundbreaking international study, with involvement from the University of Otago, Christchurch, has identified four distinct stages associated with the global growth of Inflammatory Bowel Disease ...

Almost half of schools across Aotearoa New Zealand have a specialist vape store within a 10-minute walk, despite recent legislation aimed at preventing this. New research, which overlays vape stores ...

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ) has released the Aotearoa New Zealand Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease 2024, ...

Medical assistant “graduates” from Tui made up four of the 10 candidates of the 2023 Waikato pilot that allowed overseas ...

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The 110th anniversary of the formation of the New Zealand Defence Force’s Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps (RNZNC) was celebrated at the annual Hawke’s Bay Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital Anzac Day ...