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The Minister of Health today announced blood donations would be subject to a new test to screen for HIV and hepatitis C.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

"New figures showing a dramatic drop in the number of infant deaths and cot deaths are encouraging, but National is committed to continuing to do more to turn other child health statistics around,"

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

"National is committed to giving certainty and security about rural health services. The GPs package released today is part and parcel of that commitment," Health Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

"The Alliance health policy isn't worth the paper it is written on. It's totally unrealistic. It has to heighten tensions between Labour and the Alliance," Health Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

"Further steps have been taken today to finalise the details of the new labelling regime for genetically modified food," Health Minister Wyatt Creech said following a meeting of Australian and New

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

"People will be better off with National's health policy. The health system does not want or need the structural turmoil that Labour plans," Health Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

"Once again Labour is showing it has no new ideas.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

"It's top heavy, and involves pointless upheaval. Most of it will go down as the last bastion of backwardness," Health Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

Labour's Wine Industry Policy is the classic Claytons Policy it's the policy you're having when you're not having a policy, Health Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

A project which aims to boost the health of children through using the latest in information technology is a step closer after a cash injection of $135,000, Health Minister Wyatt Creech announced t

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

The Minister of Health today announced Nelson Hospital would be revamped and modernised to the tune of $35.5 million.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

The Government has announced $50 million new investment over the next three years for services and facilities for people with intellectual disabilities who pose a serious risk to themselves or othe

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

A new committee with clinical expertise is being set up to monitor and assess new prescribers as part of Government safeguards and quality controls on the extension of prescribing rights.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

"If the overwhelming majority of citizens vote for a particular course of action it is arrogant to ignore it," Deputy Prime Minister Wyatt Creech said today in condemning Helen Clark's statement th

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Deputy Prime Minister

The way has been cleared for people to get easier access to the medicines they need with new legislation allowing nurses to prescribe.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

New designer drugs will be classified and banned quickly thanks to a law change introduced into Parliament today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

"Labour's me-too rural health 'policy' is a flattering endorsement of where National is taking and continues to take rural health initiatives," Health Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

The Minister of Health today announced big improvements to the delivery of health care in the Wellington area - with a new tertiary public hospital, beefed up hospital services at Kenepuru and a pr

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

"I am disappointed that some health professionals involved in maternity care continue to argue from the sidelines instead of listening to women's views," Health Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

The Minister of Health today announced big improvements to the delivery of health care in the Wellington area - with a new tertiary public hospital, beefed up hospital services at Kenepuru and a pr

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

“It is reassuring that our maternity services are delivering for the majority of New Zealand women," Minister of Health Wyatt Creech said today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

The Minister of Health has sought and received a second expert opinion on the clinical approach taken by the Health Funding Authority following findings of serious under-reporting of cervical smear

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

The three person Ministerial inquiry in to the Gisborne Cervical Screening case has been named.

Auckland Queen's Counsel Alisa Duffy will Chair the inquiry

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

The Health Minister said today he would appoint Auckland Queen's Counsel Ailsa Duffy to head the Ministerial inquiry into the Gisborne cervical smear test case.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health