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Health Minister Bill English said today he welcomed moves by hospitals to review doctors' training.

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Health Minister Bill English said today he had concerns about the advertising of drugs direct to the public, particularly television advertising, and would be asking the Ministry of Health to inves

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Health Minister Bill English said today New Zealanders spent more on alcohol and tobacco than they did on private health costs and it was wrong to blame private health spending for our failure to s

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Health Minister Bill English said today Labour continued to be dishonest over its rural health policy.

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Health Minister Bill English said today people with disabilities might in future be able to get more control over funding so they could organise their own support services.

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Health Minister Bill English today released a report on hospital performance, which showed hospitals have achieved an increase in productivity, further reductions in the length of time patients nee

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Health Minister Bill English said he had been advised close to 80 percent of the recommendations made in Health and Disability Commissioner Robyn Stent's report on Canterbury Health had been addres

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Health Minister Bill English today welcomed State Insurance's decision to drop its latest health insurance advertising campaign, which he said was scare-mongering and based on unsubstantiated infor

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Better information about diabetes and how to prevent complications of the disease was a key part of learning how to manage it better, Health Minister Bill English said today.

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Health Minister Bill English today praised a group of Dunedin women with disabilities who have written a book, Speaking Out for Ourselves.

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Health Minister Bill English said today a hi-tech pilot project on long-distance skin clinics demonstrated how new technology could help provide better patient care outside the main centres.

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Members of the new boards for the two hospital and health services in the Bay of Plenty, including the first community representatives, were announced today by Health Minister Bill English and Asso

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Health Minister Bill English announced today he had given approval for work to start on the first stage of Wellington hospital's site redevelopment, including a new Accident and Emergency departmen

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Health Minister Bill English today announced that he had approved a $80,000 grant to the Marlborough Transitional Health Trust for development work.

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Health Minister Bill English announced today that a major Government-sponsored conference on how to improve the health of New Zealanders would be held in October.

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Health Minister Bill English announced today that Ms Patricia Seymour had been appointed chair of the Board of Tairawhiti Healthcare Ltd.

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A web site on the internet which shows all the best ideas from New Zealand hospitals was launched today by Health Minister Bill English.

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Health Minister Bill English today gave an assurance that the West Coast would continue to have a regional hospital and called on the community to get involved in discussions about the best long-te

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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

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Rural health services were a success story of the last five years, Health Minister Bill English told a rural health conference in Invercargill today.

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Health spending in the Budget will increase by 6 percent and is another step towards giving people stability and certainty about the delivery of health services, Health Minister Bill English said t

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About 30,000 people will get elective surgery procedures each year with the additional funding of $253 million over three years in this year's health package, Health Minister Bill English said toda

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Health Minister Bill English confirmed today that income and asset testing for older people in long-stay residential care in public hospitals, and asset testing for older people in long-stay reside

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This year's Budget confirmed the Government's on-going commitment to investing in the country's hospitals, Health Minister Bill English said today.

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