Consultant cardiologist Chris Ellis looks at how medications can reduce cardiovascular risk despite an increasing CT calcium score, but more needs to be done ...

Associate professor Anthony O’Brien explains why new legislation is moving towards capacity-based assessment for compulsory mental health care, and how it might be applied in primary care ...

Background: Green Cross Health and Third Age Health are planning for their practices in the Bay of Plenty to shift from the Western Bay of Plenty PHO to the Eastern Bay Primary Health Alliance.

The Social Security Amendment Bill has passed its third reading in Parliament today expanding the welfare Traffic Light System that launched in August 2024. “This bill brings new tools to ensure ...

The changes announced today are part of Health NZ’s ongoing effort to moving toward a sustainable future for New Zealand healthcare and ensure our resources and people are organised in the best way to ...

New Zealand has ranked fourth lowest out of 36 OECD and EU countries for child wellbeing in a new report just released by UNICEF. For mental wellbeing, New Zealand was the lowest ranking country, in ...

Is there any past work of fiction that can help us make sense of today’s troubling trends? Taking into account the proliferation of references to obfuscating “Newspeak”, Big Brother-style leaders and ...

The Board of Christchurch PHO is delighted to announce the appointment of Lloyd Mander as an Independent Director and Chairperson of the PHO. Lloyd is an experienced company director with a specialist ...

A Taranaki health service says vulnerable patients are about to lose dedicated help during complex, often frightening medical care because of a government funding cut. Local Democracy Reporting has ...

Otolaryngologist, head and neck surgeon Francis T. Hall discusses the evaluation of thyroid nodules, which primarily aims to determine the likelihood of malignancy. He then reviews the treatment of ...