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Health Minister Bill English today launched a Child Health Strategy for New Zealand to the year 2010 and announced Government funding had been approved for three pilot family health teams.

Health Minister Bill English today launched a pilot project in which two Wellington doctors will be the first GPs to be given access via the Health Intranet to New Zealand's National Health Index (

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Health Minister Bill English said he was disappointed to learn today that the New Zealand Nurses Organisation had withdrawn its support for the report of the Ministerial Taskforce on Nursing.

Health Minister Bill English said today he hoped the number of children poisoned each year from toxic substances would drop with the introduction of a code covering child-resistant packaging of the

Health Minister Bill English said today that the Government had instructed the Crown Law office to discuss a settlement proposal with a group of Hepatitis C claimants.

Health Minister Bill English said today the latest statistics on abortions in New Zealand showed there were still too many women having abortions.

Health Minister Bill English announced today that an additional $13 million would be going into small hospitals during the current contract negotiations as a rural premium.

Health Minister Bill English announced today that funding had been approved for a national quit-smoking line.

Health Minister Bill English said today combining information and communications technology with medicine was an excellent way of improving health services for patients.

Health Minister Bill English released figures today which showed more elective surgery was being done in New Zealand's public hospitals and waiting lists were dropping.

Health Minister Bill English said today a report which found that social, cultural and economic factors were the main determinants of health was not news to policy makers and reinforced the Governm

The first community health service designed for a specific Pacific Island group was launched today by Health Minister Bill English.

Health Minister Bill English said the passing last night of the Public Health Agencies (Redesignation and Taxation) Bill would be welcomed by the public, as it set in law the name change from Crown

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Health Minister Bill English announced today that Alan Harwood had been appointed chairman of the board of Capital Coast Health.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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