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Minister of Health Tony Ryall has released a National Cardiac Surgery Update detailing recent improvements in cardiac surgery in New Zealand.

“The update shows the improvements in access to cardiac surgery being made by the Cardiac Surgery Clinical Network which was established in 2009,” the Minister of Health, Tony Ryall said.

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Health Minister Tony Ryall and Associate Minister for Health Tariana Turia says that Budget 2011 sees the Government put an extra $130 million into disability support services over four years.

Mr Ryall says, "An extra $8.5 million a year extra is going into residential support services with some of that to help deal with increasing numbers of people being supported in these facilities.

"Home and community services, for activities like showering, getting dressed, preparing a meal, and house work, is to receive another $6.6 million a year.

  • Tony Ryall
  • Tariana Turia
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Mihi ki a Ngati Hinekura, Ngati Pikiao, Iwi kainga, Te Rau Matatini.

I want to firstly acknowledge Te Ariki Morehu and Moehau Kutia, who have blessed our hui by being here, and in doing so, have brought a special dimension to the hui.

We might call that dimension kaumatuatanga.

  • Tariana Turia
  • Health

I move, that the Smoke-free Environments (Controls and Enforcement) Amendment Bill be now read a second time. 

I want to start by acknowledging the work of the Health Committee for its dedicated efforts in considering the Bill, for its report on the Bill and the helpful amendments. 

If I could be so bold as to make a preliminary comment about the political support for this legislation, it would be to acknowledge the widespread and sincere attitude of support for smokefree initiatives which I believe is both heartening and responsible.

  • Tariana Turia
  • Health

The Government wants to ensure every New Zealand child has the chance to be protected against preventable diseases, Health Minister Tony Ryall announced today.

Immunisation is one of the Government’s six Health Targets. Currently an all-time record 90 percent of New Zealand two-year-olds have had all the recommended immunisations. The Health Target is 95 percent by July 2012.

  • Tony Ryall
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I have been greatly looking forward to this event – to celebrate the wonder of Matariki in the best of company.  For who could be better than nurses, midwives, kaimahi hauora, and healthcare workers to treasure the health and wellbeing of our whanau?

It is with great pleasure that I also welcome Members of Parliament from across the House to this special night.

  • Tariana Turia
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Health Minister Tony Ryall welcomes an initiative which is bringing the health and education sectors together to jointly address South Auckland’s health workforce needs.

Counties Manukau DHB has partnered with local tertiary education providers to establish a ‘Centre for Health System Improvement and Innovation’ – named Ko Awatea. 

The centre officially opened today in the grounds of Middlemore Hospital, where National MP Dr Paul Hutchison spoke on behalf of Health Minister Tony Ryall.

  • Tony Ryall
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The Government has announced the combined pharmaceutical budget for 2011/12 will be $777.4 million – up from $710 million this year.

Health Minister Tony Ryall says part of this increase is made up of $20 million of new money the National Government has added to medicine spending.

"An estimated average 180 thousand extra patients have benefited every year from the Government's $180 million funding boost for medicines, since we took office."

  • Tony Ryall
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The Government will have the ability to severely curtail the marketing and sale of the synthetic cannabis product Kronic within weeks, Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne said today.

“We will able to place strong restrictions on Kronic when Parliament passes amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Act in the next few weeks,” Mr Dunne said.

He said it was already illegal to sell to those under 18 under smokefree legislation.

  • Peter Dunne
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Cabinet has given the green light for work to commence on a new natural health products regulator, Associate Health Minister Jonathan Coleman confirmed today.

The natural health products regulator is one of the shared policy initiatives agreed to by the National and Green Parties under a Memorandum of Understanding.

  • Jonathan Coleman
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A new set of guidelines to help residential aged care providers manage medicines as safely as possible, has been launched by National MP Jo Goodhew in Timaru today.

Mrs Goodhew is a former nurse, and launched the Ministry of Health guidelines at a meeting of GreyPower in Timaru today.

Releasing the Medicines Care Guides for Residential Aged Care on behalf of Health Minister Tony Ryall, Mrs Goodhew says, "They will provide a valuable and timely tool for residential care providers.

  • Tony Ryall
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Health Minister Tony Ryall today opened a state of the art, $9.2 million Dialysis Centre at North Shore Hospital – enabling Waitemata renal patients to receive their care closer to home.

"Auckland DHB is also moving to establish dialysis services for patients closer to home.  It is on track to establish three community based dialysis centres, most likely near primary care clinics, with the first one planned for east Auckland next year," said Mr Ryall.

At Waitemata DHB, until recently, patients had to travel into central Auckland for treatment.

  • Tony Ryall
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The Government is delivering $12 million over four years to trial health innovations and new technologies that improve patient care.

The new innovation fund will be managed by a revamped National Health Committee (NHC) which will advise the Minister of Health on new diagnostic and treatment innovations that are cost effective and proven, and should be publicly funded.

The fund will support the trial, test or assessment of new technologies.

  • Tony Ryall
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His Worship the Mayor Tony Bonne; Fellow MPs, distinguished guests.

I am thrilled to be here today, at the invitation of Te Ika Whenua Hauora, to be talking about an issue which is of such national significance.

I understand that officials and advisors have been searching for many months to find just the right place to be addressing the issues around rheumatic fever.

  • Tariana Turia
  • Health

Rotorua

The New Zealand Medical Association is the country’s largest medical organisation. Your members come from all disciplines within the medical profession, and include specialists, general practitioners, doctors-in-training and medical students.

So it’s a real pleasure for me to be here today, the fifth time I’ve joined you at this conference.

Today I am going to cover:

• Our recent budget and the international context

  • Tony Ryall
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Matariki 2011 will leave an enduring memory in the minds of all New Zealanders.

At the dawning of this day, over one hundred rangatahi gathered to issue a unique challenge to the peoples of Aotearoa.

It was a challenge in many forms – in haka, waiata and performance from the students of Te Aute; Hato Paora; Turakina; Wellington High; Nga Mokopuna and Rongotai College.

  • Tariana Turia
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Tēnā koutou, ngā mihi ki a koutou.

Pacific greetings to you all, and good morning.

I am delighted to be here today to celebrate the opening of this new dental clinic at your new school.

But before I talk about this new clinic, I wish to acknowledge the people who have brought us here today. 

I thank Mr John Paterson, Kaumatua of Ngati Whatua and the Auckland DHB, for his warm welcome.

Today, I especially thank Mr Colin Davis who served as an advisor to the DHB during the consultation and construction stage of this clinic.

  • Peter Dunne
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Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne today welcomed a Health Ministry Value-for-Money Review of problem gambling services that found they were innovative, well designed and with good coverage of the most at-risk groups.

The review, undertaken by KPMG, focused on all aspects of the Government’s problem gambling programme, from the Ministry’s role through to the delivery of services to prevent and minimise gambling harm.

  • Peter Dunne
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I have been so excited about the opportunity to open Te Roopu Huihuinga Hauora Trust Whanau Wellness Centre.

What a fabulous name to wear with pride – this is the centre at which 'whanau wellness' is the norm.    This is the centre which sets a new expectation – that the greatest wealth is health.

The only thing you will catch walking through these doors is the infectious spirit, people who are driven by the exuberance of living.

It is time for establishing a new norm, an agenda of transformation.

  • Tariana Turia
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Budget 2011 delivers $7.3 million of reprioritised funding over four years to drive more effective, more efficient services for sexual and reproductive health.   

“This will deliver improved sexual and reproductive health for New Zealanders,” says Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia.

  • Tariana Turia
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  • Budget 2011
  • Community workers throat swabbing schoolchildren for rheumatic fever;
  • a rural woman with lung and heart disease managing her symptoms from home with a tele-health monitor and;
  • an integrated family health centre  that offers telephone consults and 'virtual' appointments for their patients' convenience.

These are some of the case studies featured in a new Ministry of Health booklet illustrating the strides being made in bringing better, sooner, more convenient health care to New Zealanders.

  • Tony Ryall
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The countdown is on to get a million New Zealanders immunised against seasonal influenza with almost 950,000 doses of vaccine distributed so far.

"Last year more than a million doses of flu vaccine were distributed by the end of the flu season, and the signs are good that we will reach this milestone again by the end of July," says Health Minister Tony Ryall.

  • Tony Ryall
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Associate Minister of Health, Hon Tariana Turia, has welcomed the latest  Year 10 (14-15 year olds) smoking prevalence data for 2010 released by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).

”The overall results are pleasing – in particular that daily smoking by Year 10 students is down to 5.5%”.

“While that is only a very small decline from 2009 (0.1%) I think we have to focus on the positive – that is, that it is still a decline, no matter how minimal” said Mrs Turia.

  • Tariana Turia
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The Government has approved a $40 million cash injection for Capital and Coast District Health Board for the 2010/11 financial year.

Health Minister Tony Ryall says "This DHB continues to have the largest deficit of any DHB in the country.

"This is a one-off payment so the board can pay its day to day bills without always going into overdraft.

"The $40 million support is what was budgeted, and the DHB remains on track to break even in 2013/14."

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