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All Blacks and other high profile Cantabrians are providing messages of support and advice about where to go for help to people affected by the Canterbury earthquake.

Health Minister Tony Ryall today thanked the hundreds of Canterbury health workers who spent the weekend treating and caring for the earthquake struck people of Canterbury and those staff who are c

Health Minister Tony Ryall says the Tairawhiti District Health Board (DHB) has posted big improvements in key services over the past year.

Health Minister Tony Ryall has welcomed a cancer drug agreement between Pharmac and pharmaceutical company Roche that  will enable more patients to get new cancer drugs, and more cancer patien

The Government's new investment in Health continues with approval of a $65 million redevelopment of Whakatane Hospital, Health Minister Tony Ryall announced while visiting the hospital today.<

Over 55,000 four year olds have now received B4School health checks - 40,000 of them in the past 12 months.

Government funding to expand PlunketLine to 24/7 for parents has seen the service answer nearly 27,000 more calls in the 2009/10 year than it did two years previously.

Health Minister Tony Ryall has released new guidelines for cleaning up clandestine laboratories used to manufacture methamphetamine or 'P'.

A record 138,443 patients had elective surgery in the last financial year, says Health Minister Tony Ryall.

Health Minister Tony Ryall is declining a request to allow self-funded chemotherapy drugs to be administered in Dunedin Hospital.

"The first full year of the Government's new Health Targets show District Health Boards are delivering more frontline services for our significant investment in the public health service," Health M

"In the past year the Bay of Plenty District Health Board increased frontline health services, and implemented a number of improvements in the way those services were delivered," says Health Minist

There are now 100 extra paramedics filling ambulance rosters around the country as part of the Government's $48 million four-year spend to support national ambulance services.

Health Minister, Tony Ryall says "A total of 375 people have put their names forward for places on the 20 District Health Boards in the upcoming elections.

Health Minister Tony Ryall says the Lakes District Health Board has posted big improvements in key services over the past year.

Health Minister Tony Ryall today launched a new productivity programme led by surgeons, anaesthetists, and theatre nurses to improve quality and efficiency in public hospital operating theatres.

Over 2,200 nurses are now spending more time caring for patients through a Health productivity initiative that uses Toyota-style "lean thinking".

Demonstration projects have started where lead maternity carers (LMC) can refer high-needs pregnant women for a free GP visit, which their midwife can attend as well.

An interactive CD for health professionals developed to help raise awareness of diabetes eye screening, has been launched.

Increased funding and greater awareness of the National Travel Assistance (NTA) policy has seen more people getting more financial help from the Government with their travel expenses for specialist

Health Minister Tony Ryall says a survey of families involved in a Government programme to get inactive children moving underscores the importance of teaching the benefits of both physical activity

The national newborn hearing screening programme is now in place in all 20 District Health Boards, and it is expected that around ten babies a month born with a significant hearing loss will be ide

Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced consultation on new recall procedures for medicines and medical devices following a number of medicine recalls earlier this year.

A $60 million funding boost to medicines funding under the National-led Government, means a quarter of a million Kiwis are receiving government subsidised medicines they couldn't have got two years