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There has been a good deal said about implementing the Coalition health policy. The fact is implementation is well underway and I am committed to completing what I have set out to do.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English said today the Government had received 137 submissions on the Steering Group report on implementing the Coalition Agreement.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English today announced changes to the way secure long-term care for mentally ill patients was provided, with new facilities to be built to replace the ageing National Secure U

  • Bill English
  • Health

The Government's planned booking system for surgical waiting lists would give certainty to the people eligible for operations, Health Minister Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English said today the Ministry of Health would be supporting improvements to fire protection in rest homes following an investigation into the fire in the Joan Whiting Rest Ho

  • Bill English
  • Health

The role of the hospital is shrinking and teaching hospitals must change to support the public health Otago Medical School Medical Forum in Dunedin today.

  • Bill English
  • Health

A single Crown-owned agency to nationally co-ordinate the country's blood service would be established by 1 July next year, Health Minister Bill English announced today.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English said today he was very keen to see some of the projects identified for better patient care in Wanganui get off the ground.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English said today he was concerned at allegations that young patients at Lake Alice Hospital were abused there in the 1970s.

  • Bill English
  • Health

The third annual report on regional health authority performance was released today by Health Minister Bill English.

  • Bill English
  • Health

The outcome of the inquiry into an incident earlier this year when a mentally-ill man raped a woman in Levin would most definitely be made public, Health Minister Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Health

State Services Minister Jenny Shipley and Health Minister Bill English announced today that from 1 July 1997 Crown health enterprise boards would be fully responsible for salary packages paid to th

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English has ordered a full report on the week-end fire at the Joan Whiting Rest Home in Collingwood.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Recommendations on how to implement health initiatives set out in the Coalition Agreement are contained in a report released today by the Minister of Health Bill English.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English responding today to radio reports on Income and Asset Testing said:

"There will be an announcement about Income and Asset Testing in the upcoming Budget."

  • Bill English
  • Health

The amount New Zealand spends on pharmaceuticals keeps increasing in spite of the efforts of the Government's drug-subsidy agency Pharmac, Health Minister Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English said today that the implementation of the elective surgery Booking System was a unique opportunity to get a system in place that was fair for all New Zealanders waiting

  • Bill English
  • Health

The Ministers of Health and Youth Affairs today called for government agencies, communities, parents, teachers and young people to work together to prevent youth suicides.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English today welcomed the initiative of Western Bay Health and Eastbay Health to investigate ways to improve health services in their region.

  • Bill English
  • Health

The latest round of allocations from the Government's Waiting Times Fund were announced today by Health Minister Bill English.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English said today the country was ready for debate on the relationship between improving the health of New Zealanders and Government funding on health services.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English said today he had been advised immunity from prosecution could not be granted to people appearing before the inquiry into patient safety at Christchurch Hospital.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English said today the report he had received from Good Health Wanganui about complaints made by GP Dr Prakash confirmed his view that the complaints amounted to differences of

  • Bill English
  • Health

The atttitude of Labour's health spokesperson, Lianne Dalziel, to the Health and Disability Commissioner's inquiry in Christchurch was disgraceful and incomprehensible, Minister of Health Bill Engl

  • Bill English
  • Health