Health reforms

“It was the dirty end of winter” (thanks Nick Cave), as I began writing this last month. A time when COVID-19 was once again on the rise, everyone seemed to be sick with a range of ills – the quieter roads were a good indication – but over-riding everything was the ongoing exhaustion, despondency and low morale. And not just in healthcare!

On 1 July, new health agencies were ushered in with a whole new set of priorities and expectations. New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa journalist Martin Johnston reports 

An outsider to health governance until becoming chair of interim Health New Zealand and then chair of its successor, Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, Rob Campbell says he has never been mainstream

Ngā mihi o te tau hou – happy Māori new year. The country’s first public holiday for Matariki has passed and up and down the country, Kiwis got out to embrace the event in all kinds of ways.

The launch event for the new health agencies was held this morning 

The pharmacy sector will be watching and waiting this month as 20 DHBs give way to Health New Zealand and the Māori Health Authority. Jonathan Chilton-Towle looks at what might happen

Ngā mihi o te tau hou – happy Māori new year. The country’s first public holiday for Matariki has passed and up and down the country, Kiwis got out to embrace the event in all kinds of ways.

The pharmacy sector will be watching and waiting this month as 20 DHBs give way to Health New Zealand and the Māori Health Authority. Jonathan Chilton-Towle looks at what might happen

Ngā Kaitiaki o te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa (The Māori Pharmacists Association) introduces its new executive team