Health New Zealand has announced an extra $25 million to boost more beds and staff in hospitals across the country ahead of winter’s anticipated sickness rush. The investment hopes to deliver 378 ...

The government blamed loss of financial control when it sacked the central agency's board two years ago.

New Zealand Health Minister Shane Reti said Tuesday that the Māori Health Authority will be shut down by the end of June this year, and its functions will be absorbed into the country’s national ...

New Zealand’s public health system faces a rapidly worsening crisis, with growing levels of unmet need and understaffing, as the National Party-led government ramps up its brutal austerity program.

Another 44 deaths with COVID-19 were added to New Zealand’s toll over the last week, amid a surge of infections over the summer holiday period. The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 more than ...

The figure was based on the latest Statistics NZ child poverty data for the year ended 30 June 2025: Latest child poverty data. This data has been collected since 2018. The article was written by the ...

New Zealand health officials announced Wednesday that new prescriptions for puberty blockers will no longer be issued to children identifying as transgender. Doctors will stop prescribing the ...

Over the past three decades, New Zealand’s imports of “ultra-processed” foods and drinks increased significantly, from 16 kilograms per person in 1990 to 104 kilograms in 2023. Our research shows the ...

A nationwide rollout of an AI-powered clinical documentation tool, called AI scribe, to emergency clinicians across public ...