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From July 1, the Ministry of Health will become responsible for leading and coordinating suicide prevention initiatives, with funding provided for in Budget 2005.

Public health law must build on the best of the past and retain its core areas of environmental health and protection against communicable disease. We must also find ways to meet the new challenges facing society.

The official opening of this new Auckland University Centre for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an event of considerable national significance.The Centre will be a base for researchers from across the University, many of whom will bring international experience in conducting large-scale clinical trials and expertise in MRI research. The work will be of benefit to all New Zealanders.

Associate Health Minister Damien O'Connor addresses Aukati Kai Paipa's annual national smoking cessation hui at Orakei Marae in Auckland.

This major monitoring report on inequalities in survival chances between socio-economic groups in this country will make a significant contribution to improving the health of New Zealanders - particularly if we use the evidence it provides to underpin our decision-making.

Associate Health and Rural Affairs Minister Damien O'Connor to meet with local health providers in the Bay of Plenty/Taupo and attend a Federated Farmers meeting in Rotorua.

The report of a landmark event, the first ever national health survey of the Chatham Islands community.

In a country that has tended to be wary of national health registers, the National Joint Register has attracted little controversy. It is also one of the most comprehensive such databases in the world. This fifth anniversary of the register, therefore, represents a great achievement.

First meeting held today on enforcement and publicity around NOS being illegal.

New Zealand is proud to be the current co-ordinator for OceaniaFoods and to be hosting the 7th OceaniaFoods Conference.

Legal review has found selling NOS for inhaling is illegal

Annette King foreshadows upcoming changes in dental health care.

The suicide rate has declined by 25 percent since its 1998 peak

The government and media organizations need to work more closely together on the issue of youth suicide, an independent review has found.

Hutt Valley DHB launches a new name and facility for its successful youth health service. The free service currently has 3000 young people on its books.

Link to annual ministerial report on primary healthcare in New Zealand

Capital & Coast Health have just had all three facilities accredited by Quality Health NZ for the maximum period possible. Health Minister Annette King presents the awards.

Launch of mobile dental care unit at Kerikeri

CancerVOICES is a relatively new international organisation which gives voice to cancer patients and carers, so that their stories might be heard within the health sector and by the wider community. Health Minister Annette King opens the Wellington conference and outlines steps being taken in New Zealand to address what is recognised as a major health priority.

Keynote address to the Carers Summit 2005, Te Papa, 9:30 am, 17 March.

Speech, award of National Certificates in the Care of Older People

The health sector has worked well to source a further 360,000 doses of full strength influenza vaccine

New Zealand stopped training dental therapists during the National Government's watch during the 1990s, and the down-stream impacts of that - the poor oral health of many young people - is plain for all to see. This week, the Labour Government began turning the sitation around with the first Oral Health graduates being capped at the Auckland University of Technology. Health Minister Annette King was there to congratulate them.

Speech for the launch of HealthCare Providers NZ