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Health Minister Annette King says obesity has become an epidemic in New Zealand and other western nations, with more than 1000 New Zealand adults dying each year from obesity-related diseases.

Health Minister Annette King says District Health Boards and other providers now have the opportunity to employ a new type of health professional.

Today, following a three-hour meeting of Northland clinicians, Kaitaia community representatives, Northland DHB members, the College of Midwives and the Ministry of Health, an agreement was reached regarding services at Kaitaia hospital.

Health Minister Annette King says dishonest misinformation about a proposal to set up a trans-Tasman agency to regulate therapeutic products is misleading the public.

It’s time National leader Bill English “fessed-up” over claims about cancer patients, Health Minister Annette King says.

Minister for Food Safety Annette King says New Zealand will soon have one of the most comprehensive food-labelling regimes in the world, and now boasts a world-leading regulatory programme in the New Zealand Food Safety Authority.

Food Safety Minister Annette King today launched the New Zealand Food Safety Authority.

Health Minister Annette King says the Government's aim to improve the overall health of New Zealanders has moved a step closer with the formation in South Auckland of the country’s first two new primary health care groups.

Health Minister Annette King says the National Party’s health policy is high on rhetoric, low on detail, and offers no comfort to the voting public.

Health Minister Annette King says she has asked the Ministry of Health’s Deputy-Director General of Clinical Services Colin Feek to convene a meeting with Kaitaia and Whangarei clinicians next week, to discuss clinical credentialing issues affecting the Far North.

Health Minister Annette King says women's health services in Canterbury will receive a major boost with a $79 million redevelopment for Christchurch Women's Hospital.

Health Minister Annette King today announced the appointment of five new board members to District Health Boards, a new chair of Waikato DHB, and the reappointment of the current chair of Tairawhiti DHB.

Health Minister Annette King announced today that the New Zealand nominations have all been appointed to the new Food Standards Australia and New Zealand Board.

Health Minister Annette King today invited primary health care groups to consider applying to a new $8.1 million fund designed to encourage nurses to explore new ways of keeping people well or treating those already sick.

Health Minister Annette King says the success of 49 overseas-trained doctors in passing the NZ General Registration Exam (NZREX) proves the Government’s $11.8 million bridging programme will benefit our health system significantly.

Health Minister Annette King says setting up a one-stop-shop for health service complaints is one benefit provided by the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Bill, introduced to Parliament today.

Health Minister Annette King says the Government will spend $2 million on a new neonatal intensive care unit at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital to help some of New Zealand's most vulnerable babies.

Health Minister Annette King today welcomed the launch of clinical trials of a group B meningococcal vaccine as a solid step toward the end of an epidemic.

GPs, Nurses and other health workers serving rural communities will receive extra funding of more than $32 million over the next three years as the Government extends its primary health care funding package in rural New Zealand.

GPs, Nurses and other health workers serving rural communities will receive extra funding of more than $32 million over the next three years as the Government extends its primary health care funding package in rural New Zealand.

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Health Minister Annette King has announced a substantial capital investment in the public health system.

“The $3.2 billion three year health funding path laid out in Budget 2002 will enable the sector to plan for service delivery in a genuinely strategic way,” Health Minister Annette King said today.

Health Minister Annette King today announced a commitment of up to $200 million to the Meningococcal Vaccine Strategy to be funded over a five-year period, with $35 million to be spent in 2002-03.