Search

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 (

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.