The Health New Zealand Board will take over from the current Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners, who were appointed last ...

New Zealand already has one of the worst occupational health and safety records, per head of population, among OECD nations.

The reforms will mean that for the first time, New Zealand will have a truly national health system, and the kind of treatment people get will no longer be determined by where they live, he said.

Although the new system - Health New Zealand - will mean Chandler's role will end, The health reforms mean district health board members' roles will also be disestablished.

New Zealand Northland Auckland Wellington Canterbury Otago / Queenstown Nelson-Tasman Best NZ beaches; ... Health reforms: Problems get worse as $11b shake-up yet to help struggling sector.

New Zealand's Maori Health Authority will be shutdown by June 20, the health minister said on Tuesday, as the centre-right government winds back indigenous policies of previous governments.

“I thought that New Zealand was at a point where we were able to talk about drug policy in a different way – a more scientific, measured way. But that’s obviously not the case.” ...

New Zealand Minister of Health Shane Reti [Photo: Facebook/Shane Reti]. Reti claimed the country’s public health system is headed towards a $1.4 billion deficit by the end of the financial year ...

Public health modelling conducted in 2022 had shown the Smokefree policy would have saved New Zealand's health system about US$1.3bn (£630m) over the next 20 years.

LONDON — Health and tobacco campaigners said Monday that New Zealand’s plan to repeal laws that would ban tobacco sales for future generations threatened lives and put international efforts to ...

A report on corruption in New Zealand released on Sunday questioned the transparency of the nation’s political system, recommending proactive changes to lobbying regulation, political donations and ...