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At a ceremony marking the formal handover of Te Puia Hospital on the East Coast to Ngati Porou Hauora today, the Associate Minister of Health expressed her delight at seeing Maori leadership coming

  • Georgina te Heuheu
  • Associate Minister of Health

With the handover of Te Puia Hospital on the East Coast to Ngati Porou Hauora - Maori are strengthening their leadership in shaping health services for their own people.

  • Georgina te Heuheu
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Minister for Health Georgina te Heuheu today launched standards to ensure quality service for traditional Maori healing practices.

  • Georgina te Heuheu
  • Associate Minister of Health

A partnership of effort is needed to defeat heart disease," said Hon Georgina te Heuheu at the official opening of the 47th annual scientific meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zea

  • Georgina te Heuheu
  • Associate Minister of Health

The Associate Minister of Health, Hon Tuariki Delamere, and the Minister for the Environment, Hon Simon Upton, today released a draft guideline for managing the effects of radiofrequency transmitte

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Health Minister, Hon Tuariki Delamere, today announced the Government is planning to establish an expert working group to review the warning regime for dietary supplements and foods conta

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Health Minister, Hon Tuariki Delamere, has welcomed the constructive debate on pharmaceutical drug subsidy policy that emerged from yesterday's meeting between the Government health fundi

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Minister of Health, Hon Tuariki Delamere, said on the occasion of World No-tobacco Day, that he was thrilled at the latest figures on New Zealanders' consumption of tobacco.

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Minister of Health, Hon Tuariki Delamere, will host a hui in Island Bay on Wednesday, June 9, to promote discussion in the pharmaceutical industry on new drugs that are becoming available

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

At Papakura Marae in Auckland today, Associate Minister of Health, Hon Georgina te Heuheu and Minister of Maori Affairs Hon Tau Henare today announced Government's support for "Tamariki Maraerobics

  • Georgina te Heuheu
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Minister of Health, Hon Tuariki Delamere, said today he was delighted at the preliminary independent analysis of a major change in the way PHARMAC, the Government's drug-buying agency, su

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

The Associate Minister of Health, Hon Georgina te Heuheu will make a pre-Budget announcement concerning the "Tamariki Maraerobics" television programme.

  • Georgina te Heuheu
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Minister of Health Hon Georgina te Heuheu today emphasised the Government's message that the health system had seen the end of major reform, and that all the Government's energy was going

  • Georgina te Heuheu
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Health Minister, Hon Tuariki Delamere, is pleased the pharmaceutical and advertising industries have accepted a plan that will see the industries monitor and regulate the direct advertisi

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Health Minister, Hon Tuariki Delamere, today challenged his colleagues to make Parliament a smoke-free working environment.

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

MP for Te Tai Rawhiti, Tuariki Delamere, today proposed a high-powered Special Waitangi Tribunal be established to break what he described as the logjam affecting the settlement of claims under the

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

MP for Te Tai Rawhiti, Tuariki Delamere, today expressed disappointment that both the Treaty Negotiations minister, Sir Douglas Graham, and the ACT party leader, Richard Prebble, had appeared to miss the point over Mr Delamere's call for a high-powered Special Waitangi Tribunal to be established to break what he described as the logjam affecting the settlement of claims under the Treaty of Waitangi.

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

"It's time Maori families took the lead, took responsibility for their own health" said the Hon Georgina te Heuheu today when opening the Te Hua o te Whanau Conference on Maori Health at Massey Uni

  • Georgina te Heuheu
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Minister of Health, Hon Tuariki Delamere, said today that ACT leader Richard Prebble's attack on PHARMAC last night was riddled with error and ignorant distortions of the facts.

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Minister of Health, Hon Tuariki Delamere, said today he supports Ministry of Health efforts to stamp out the illegal promotion of cigars.

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

The Government has passed regulations requiring cigarette and loose tobacco packets to carry larger, stronger health warnings and increased consumer information

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Health Minister Tuariki Delamere said today he was astonished to hear that the Alliance Health spokesperson, Phillida Bunkle, would support a ban on transplant surgery.

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Health Minister, Hon Tuariki Delamere, today announced his intention to try to make it illegal for political parties and politicians to accept any form of contribution, monetary or otherw

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health

Associate Health Minister, Hon Tuariki Delamere, today reassured New Zealand women that they have four brands of fully subsidised second generation oral contraceptive pills to choose from, if they

  • John Delamare
  • Associate Minister of Health