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Health Minister Bill English announced today the new cardiac service for the South Island was a step closer with the first patients expected to be treated before the end of the year.

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Health Minister Bill English told psychiatrists today that he could no longer accept failures in basic steps in the care of the mentally ill.

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"The Government's new Family Start programme has taken a big step forward, with the signing of the first contract for the delivery of Family Start services," the Ministers of Education, Health and

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Health Minister Bill English said today he was pleased to be able to continue his work in the health portfolio, particularly around child health and the forthcoming Hospital Plan.

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Health Minister Bill English said today the Ministry of Health would review services for people with autism and their families and had commissioned an independent review of the treatment of Casey A

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Health Minister Bill English said today that health dollars were being shifted into areas where early intervention on health problems could improve the health of the community.

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Health Minister Bill English said today most hospitals would be out of the red and recording a surplus in two years time now that details of the funding transfer announced in the Budget had been fi

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Health Minister Bill English said today the elective surgery Booking System was more ethical than the waiting list system, because it meant people with the most need were treated first and because

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Health Minister Bill English said today New Zealand's emergency services were excellent and a health poll which showed only 55 percent of people were confident emergency services would be there if

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Health Minister Bill English said today the launch of the report of the Ministerial Taskforce on Nursing was an important first step in nurses achieving a wider role in health services.

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Health Minister Bill English today praised Auckland Healthcare's meningococcal disease awareness programme, and said it was an excellent example of a local solution to a serious local problem.

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Health Minister Bill English said today the first baseline report on the implementation of the Booking System provided compelling evidence of why the waiting list system had to change.

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Health Minister Bill English said today a package put together by local health agencies, with support from other groups, means Westport may be close to solving its GP shortage.

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Health Minister Bill English said today the recent case of diphtheria highlighted the need for parents to get their children immunised.

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Health Minister Bill English said today warnings would be issued to three drug companies who appeared to have breached the requirements of the Medicines Act regarding the advertising of prescriptio

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Health Minister Bill English and Pacific Island Affairs Minister Don McKinnon announced today that $1 million had been allocated to a Pacific Providers Development Scheme, which will extend the bus

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Some Auckland GPs are to be given access to South Auckland Health's surgery Booking System Priority Queue in a pilot project launched today by Health Minister Bill English.

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Health Minister Bill English said a new electronic handbook to help junior doctors manage and investigate patients in emergency conditions was a perfect example of technology being used practically

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Health Minister Bill English said today the Alliance had proved yet again how ready it was to buy into off-the-wall conspiracy theories with its statement this week that Tauranga Hospital was being

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These integrated care pilots signal formally a significant shift in the way we are making health policy.

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Health Minister Bill English said today new ideas in health needed to be tested to make sure they achieved better care and better service.

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Health Minister Bill English said today the first round of public consultation over the planned overhaul of public health legislation would begin in August and would be based on a discussion docume

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Health Minister Bill English today welcomed the establishment of a new group for doctors, nurses and other health professionals who have taken on management and leadership responsibilities.

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