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I was overjoyed to move from the US health system to NZ’s. But then I could see the cracks

Comment: After years of understaffing brought multiple departments to the brink of collapse, Alex Raines was one of a group of senior medical officers who wrote to the leadership of Health NZ and the Minister of Health calling for action

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A looming crisis means New Zealand must rethink how it pays for aged care

The recent submissions to parliament’s Health Select Committee makes one thing clear: a crisis looms for the aged care sector in New Zealand.

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New chair must fix clumsy and poorly delivered Health NZ super-agency

Exclusive: The sacked Health NZ chair offers some forthright advice to his successor on addressing extensive waste, resolving recruitment, retention and pay anomalies, and partnering with the wider health sector.

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Ousted health chair reveals plan for 'many hundreds' of job cuts

Te Whatu Ora staff to be consulted on managerial and administrative lay-offs to reduce duplication between former DHBs: 'I hate it,' says Rob Campbell, 'but they do happen'. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Peters says NZ First is coming back, again

Winston Peters isn’t reading too much into the centre-right swing at a local government level, but says political parties preparing for next year’s election need to start listening to voter

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In aged care crisis, the grass is always greener on the other side of The Ditch

The short-staffed, cash-strapped NZ industry is green with envy at Australia's funding changes –

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National database will reach patients in drug shortages – but 'no magic pill'

Health NZ is developing a national 'data warehouse' for NZers' primary care information – a tool it hopes will help talk with patients in crises like this month's drug shortages.

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Band-aids for health staffing crisis are only a short-term patch, says new health boss

Two weeks into the new health order, Health NZ says it's concerned and reveals how it's working to address the shortage of doctors and nurses.

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Health bosses silent on Middlemore patient death investigation

Health officials are staying tight-lipped on an investigation into a patient who died after being turned away at Middlemore's emergency department due to long wait times.

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Health NZ day one: 'We've got our runners on and sprinting'

DHBs are today no more, with Health NZ taking over in the biggest reforms the health sector has seen in 20 years.

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Health sector urged to prepare for shifting sands

DHBs are replaced with big national health authorities this week, but patients and suppliers are yet to discover where they will fit on NZ's new health map | Content partnership

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Aotearoa must be vigilant after Roe v Wade

Liz Beddoe and Eileen Joy look at the potential ramifications of Roe v Wade for NZ, finding many ways even so-called 'settled law' could be undermined by funding and access barriers.

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Health NZ chair to clean up 'management consultants cluttering hospital corridors'

As Health NZ begins taking over from DHBs this week, Rob Campbell declares 'war' on those exploiting the health system for their own commercial gain

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Challenge for Māori Health Authority bigger than funding

Those who were expecting a big windfall for the Māori Health Authority will be left disappointed, but there’s no point in funding services that don’t exist, writes @jo_moir

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Budget 2022: 'Largest investment ever’ in health system

Billions of dollars will go into the reformed, centralised health system over the next four years, but Māori will see just a little of it, Marc Daalder reports

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The rise and rise of EY

EY became the consultancy of choice for DHBs. David Williams follows the money

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New Zealand's health restructure is doomed to fall short unless its funding model is tackled first

This year significant reforms to New Zealand’s health care system will be introduced. But to achieve its goals of an equitable system, the government needs to make deeper changes than it has proposed.

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As DHBs die, a chance to feed a starved health system

Question marks over how much health funding will change in this year’s huge shake-up.

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