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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Venue: Wairarapa DHB, Masterton.
Health Minister Annette King helped celebrate the start of work on a new hospital in Masterton, saying it was a significant development for Wairarapa as a whole.

Health Minister Annette King emphasised the importance of evidence-based practice and guidelines to help provide her with a way to measure and seek quality within the health sector.

A new-look Mental Health Foundation website and book, Mind Your Health, build on the foundation's role to provide information, promotion and advocacy services

Health Minister Annette King described the new Cancer Society Information and Learning Centre as a testament to what strong belief and a spirit of partnership and co-operation can achieve.

Pacific health workers were thanked and acknowledged for their contributions to the breast and cervical screening programmes when Health Minister Annette King opened the Pacific Screening Workers Annual National Conference in Christchurch.

Health Minister Annette King and Minister for Social Development and Employment Steve Maharey received a report on The Health of People and Communities, saying this Government had no doubt about the correlation between socio-economic factors and health.

Physiotherapists' contribution to the health and well-being of New Zealanders was applauded by Health Minister Annette King when she launched the Life! - with Physiotherapy booklet.

Health Minister Annette King welcomes Karori PHO to the family of Primary Health Organisations, now grown to 77 around the country.

Minister for Food Safety Annette King launched a booklet on traditional food safety practices in preparing and cooking a hangi, saying it fitted in well with the New Zealand Food Safety Authority's aim to reduce foodborne illness.