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Health bureaucracy is being reined in, with savings of more than $30 million to be made over the next three years in the costs of administering the health service, Health Minister Bill English said

Health Minister Bill English warned today that constant hostility in Dunedin to public health agencies could mean the city lost the race for the jobs that went with the Health Funding Authority sup

Health Minister Bill English announced today that he would introduce legislation allowing the Government to extend the right to prescribe medicines to nurses under certain conditions.

Labour, the Alliance and the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists were the toxic trio of health because they opposed anything and everything, Health Minister Bill English said today.

Health Minister Bill English said today a major overhaul of public health legislation was underway, with new legislation likely to be introduced to Parliament late next year.

Health Minister Bill English said an attack yesterday by Labour MP Pete Hodgson on a staff member of the Health Funding Authority was nasty and out of order, and he called on Labour to apologise.

Health Minister Bill English said a fairer system for patients was behind the national strategy on general practice being developed by the Health Funding Authority.

The risk of babies in New Zealand being still born or dying in their first week of life remain at record low levels, Health Minister Bill English said today.

Health Minister Bill English said today that spending on the Government's free under-sixes policy was on target.

Figures released today by Health Minister Bill English show New Zealand's health spending was the highest it had ever been at 7.8 percent of GDP.

Health Minister Bill English said today the start of Diabetes Awareness Week was a good time for people to think about their lifestyle and the changes they could make to help prevent diabetes and o

The number of registered nurses per head of population working in public hospitals has shown a dramatic increase since 1980, Health Minister Bill English said today.

Health Minister Bill English today warned Labour's health spokeswoman Annette King that she might be about to lose her job.

Hundreds of rural children are assured of help from the dental nurse with the launch today by Health Minister Bill English of the first of three new mobile clinics.

Health Minister Bill English said today older people needed to know they did not have to put up with the winter flu and all the discomfort it brought.

Health Minister Bill English said today he was happy to defend the Government's record on health services in the Taranaki-King Country and challenged opposition parties to say what they would do di

Health Minister Bill English said today development costs for the Government's Hospital Plan would be met from within existing budgets.

Labour Leader Helen Clark had so little to offer voters in Taranaki-King Country that she could not even be accused of making empty promises, Health Minister Bill English said today.

Health Minister Bill English said today the Government was committed to ensuring action on the recommendations made by Health and Disability Commissioner Robyn Stent in her report on Canterbury Hea

Health Minister Bill English said today's announcement of an extra $252 million for elective surgery was a big step in moving to a much better and fairer system for New Zealanders needing elective

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Health Minister and Clutha-Southland MP Bill English today offered his condolences to Mrs Christine Morrison and her family over the sudden death of her husband Colin.

Health Minister Bill English today called on the Labour Party to apologise to the Health and Disability Commissioner for attacking her right to carry out an inquiry into Canterbury Health.

Health Minister Bill English today welcomed the report of the Health and Disability Commissioner on her inquiry into Canterbury Health and said it brought to completion a difficult period in the CH