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New Zealand has high-quality maternity services, but room for improvement remains.

Orthopaedic staff have exceeded their targets to deliver more major hip and knee operations

The government is reviewing regulations controlling the advertising and promotion of alcohol

A three-year plan to develop and strengthen the New Zealand mental health workforce was launched in Wellington today by Health Minister Pete Hodgson.

Speech for the launch of Tauawhitia te Wero, National Mental Health and Addiction Workforce Development Plan 2006 - 2009, Wellington

The government is achieving the goals of the New Zealand Health Strategy

Suicides and attempted suicides cost New Zealand nearly $1.4 billion in 2002

Social factors have an influence on suicide, according to a newly released report

National Health Spokesman Tony Ryall is playing politics with the difference between stockpiles and supply lines, Health Minister Pete Hodgson said today.

Funding will be available to allow high-risk couples to screen embryos for some serious genetic conditions

The ban on smoking in the workplace has been a great success

Nurse practitioners will be able to prescribe a range of medicines under new regulations which come into effect tomorrow.

Health Minister Pete Hodgson said the new regulations are part of the government's wider work to build a more flexible and responsive health system.

New Zealand’s National Immunisation Register (NIR) is now live across the country. Nelson Marlborough District Health Board went live with the newborn component of the interactive, computerised database yesterday. All immunisation records of newborn babies, captured by the register, will be available to health practitioners on line.

Funding has been awarded for projects to advance the goals of the Cancer Control Strategy

The 25 finalists have been announced for the 2006 Health Innovation Awards

NZ researchers are making a crucial contribution to the fight against obesity

The dedication of Auckland City Hospital is a major milestone in the government's programme of hospital upgrades

Broad planning for New Zealand's response to an influenza pandemic.

One million young New Zealanders have now received their first dose of the Meningococcal B vaccine.

NZ & Australia have updated their double taxation agreement

The first price increase for maternity services since 2002.

Revenue Minister Peter Dunne certain IRD up to the job on Working for Families