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The Government today released its response to the report of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Complementary and Alternative Health (MACCAH).

Health Minister Annette King is pleased to announce the establishment of seven new Health and Disability Ethics Committees.

Health Minister Annette King is calling for nominations for the newly announced Cancer Control Council. The Council, charged with overseeing the implementation of the Cancer Control Strategy, will begin its work early next year.

Venue: Southern Cross Campus, Mangere, Auckland.

Health Minister Annette King issued Implementing the New Zealand Health Strategy 2004, a summary of actions this year across the health sector to implement the Strategy, with a special focus on local activities of DHBs and Primary Health Organisations.

The health sector’s commitment to progress right across the health and disability sector shines through in the fourth report on implementing the New Zealand Health Strategy, says Health Minister Annette King.

Venue: North Harbour Function Centre, Albany, Auckland.
(Delivered by Associate Health Minister Ruth Dyson on behalf of Annette King.)
Annette King spoke at Waitemata DHB's Innovation and Quality Improvement Symposium, which aimed to profile and promote the DHB’s successes to date in implementing the New Zealand Health Strategy.

Venue: Wellington Convention Centre, Lion Harbourview Lounge.
(Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Health Mita Ririnui delivered on behalf of Annette King.)

Health Minister Annette King launched Tracking the Obesity Epidemic, a report showing that the prevalence of obesity in New Zealand has doubled in the last quarter-century – from approximately 10 percent in 1977 to 21 percent in 2003 in both males and females.

Venue: Victoria University, Wellington

Health Minister Annette King launched Te Ao Maramatanga, the New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses, describing it as a truly historic day for the mental health sector in New Zealand.

Health Minister Annette King announces a $14 million Horowhenua health centre to be built in Levin.

Venue: Waipuna Conference Centre, Mt Wellington, Auckland.

Health Minister Annette King applauded the excellent work happening in Pacific health in Counties-Manukau, saying the progress provides hope for a better future for Pacific people.

Venue: White Cross Otahuhu After-Hours Clinic, Otahuhu, Auckland.

Health Minister Annette King congratulated Tamaki HealthCare Charitable Trust and the White Cross Group on their new arrangement for after hours care, saying it was great to see a local and innovative solution being developed.

Venue: Wellington Women's Hospital.

Health Minister Annette King congratulated Wellington Women’s Hospital on becoming the 14th maternity facility in New Zealand to have achieved Baby Friendly accreditation.

Venue: James Cook Hotel, Wellington.

Health Minister Annette King opened GeoHealth 2004, saying she believed the conference would help promote the sharing of experiences and exchange of ideas on the role of geographic information sciences in public health across New Zealand, Australia, Asia and the Pacific region.

New Zealand’s rising rates of sexually transmitted infections will not just go away, Health Minister Annette King said today at the launch of a new youth sexual health campaign at Parliament.

Venue: Grand Hall, Parliament.

New Zealand faces the reality that rising rates of sexually transmitted infections are simply not going to go away, Health Minister Annette King said when launching a sexual health campaign.

The Cervical Cancer Audit report gives New Zealand women a greater degree of confidence in the screening programme, says Health Minister Annette King.

Venue: Education Centre Hall, MidCentral Health, Palmerston North.
Health Minister Annette King helped celebrate the second MidCentral DHB annual prizegiving for clinical excellence in nursing.

Venue: The Terrace Conference Centre, The Terrace, Wellington.
Health Minister Annette King talked about her vision for electives at the Elective Services Forum in Wellington.

Rongotai MP Annette King says she is delighted Defence Minister Mark Burton has advised her the Government has agreed to sell the hulk of the HMNZS Wellington to the Sink F69 Trust Project Wellington.

Venue: Wellington Club.
Health Minister Annette King, with Associate Health Minister Jim Anderton,launched ‘A Duty of Care’ which chronicles the 50-year history of the National Society on Alcohol and Drug Dependence New Zealand.

Venue: Banquet Hall, Beehive.
Health Minister Annette King discussed the raft of changes in the health sector in the past three years and how they have affected practice managers and administrators when she addressed their annual conference.

Venue: Duxton Hotel, Wellington.
Health Minister Annette King addressed the ASMS annual conference, posing the question why is clinical leadership apparently becoming a more pressing requirement?

Venue: Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington.
Health Minister Annette King opened the Priorities In Health Care Conference,
discussing some of New Zealand’s priorities in health care and the approach the Government is taking toward establishing and meeting them.

Health Minister Annette King is setting up an independent Cancer Control Council that will provide an annual report to Parliament on progress in implementing the Cancer Control Strategy.