Health minister Simeon Brown has confirmed he's seeking advice and considering implementing a new health target around GP wait-times.
RNZ
Simeon Brown is proposing greater reliance on private hospitals to reduce the backlog for elective surgery.
It comes as Finland's ambassador tells Winston Peters shipyards from his country are very interested in the contract.
RNZ
Some are milking once-a-day and sending stock to the works early.
RNZ
New Zealand's Green Party is launching a petition asking the Government to extend visa-free travel to visitors from Pacific Island nations.
NZ Herald
Some of the world’s largest banks and investment firms will send representatives to Auckland for the Government’s Investment Summit this week. Infrastructure...
RNZ
New Zealand First wants to "remove woke 'DEI' regulations" from legislation that it voted for five years ago.
In his State of the Nation speech to the Auckland Business Chamber today, Hipkins outlined the party's focus on jobs, health and homes.
Newsroom
Health minister Simeon Brown: 'I promise every New Zealander: we will not stop until our health system delivers timely, quality care to all.' Jonathan Milne reports.
NZ Herald
Labour MP Willie Jackson says former Act leader Richard Prebble’s decision to step down from the Waitangi Tribunal – an appointment made in October – is...
NZ Herald
Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced the Government will progressively lower the age of eligibility for bowel cancer screening tests to eventually...
NZ Herald
Phil Goff’s position as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom is now “untenable” Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters’ office says, off the back of...
RNZ
The age for free screenings will go from 60 to 58, but using money previously set aside to give Māori and Pacific access to tests from 50. A cancer network is calling it "institutionalised racism".
RNZ
The age for free screenings will go from 60 to 58, but using money previously set aside to give Māori and Pacific access to tests from 50. A cancer network is calling it "institutionalised racism".
Newsroom
Amid new problems with Compass Group’s cheaper school lunches, experts warn short-term savings are outweighed by long-term losses, writes Fox Meyer.
RNZ
A top government minister personally added a fossil fuel lobbyist to the shortlist of candidates to help govern the country's main energy-saving agency.
NZ Herald
Education Minister Erica Stanford and her associate minister David Seymour have again been unable to meet over the troubled school lunches programme due to...
Newsroom
Two years after work started, NZ seems little closer to lobbying reform despite critics calling for change
“That continues to show our Prime Minister’s disconnect with people. I think he hasn’t read the room,” Henare said.
NZ Herald
National’s Christopher Luxon and his MPs have returned to Parliament to a whirlwind of questions about the handling of the Andrew Bayly saga and the leader’s...
NZ Herald
Act leader David Seymour says he expects the ongoing issues with his school lunches to be sorted by the next school term, but has stopped short of saying he...
The Prime Minister said there had been issues with the new programme but was confident David Seymour would get it sorted.
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Full post-Cabinet press conference on Monday, March 3. VIDEO CREDIT: Stuff A multi-million dollar performance-based uplift for GPs is the “most beneficial” part of a raft of new primary care measures announced by the health minister, according to a doctors’ leader.
RNZ
Health NZ has now paid out more than $33 million alone to staff it's cut and there's more at the Health Ministry.
RNZ
The prime minister is facing questions after a meeting of the government's top ministers.
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