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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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