Waikato DHB expected it would take three days to set things right… GPs, community nurses, pharmacists and allied health clinicians across the Waikato awoke on 18 May to discover they couldn’t connect with most of their local DHB’s IT systems
In his speech at the Beehive, unveiling his sprawling ambitions for the health system, health minister Andrew Little said he wants a national health IT system that is “smarter – so that it works effectively, intelligently, cohesively, and makes the most of the money and resources available”
Wednesday 12 May 2021, 01:20 AM
NZMA chair Kate Baddock says the association will work with the Government on the next stages of the health reforms
Many of the country’s more than 220,000 health and disability sector employees just had their world turned upside down.
Simon Maude talks with doctors’ associations about the impacts of the newly announced abolition of DHBs and their replacement with a new agency
What we know., On 1 July 2022, all DHBs will be dissolved, and all their 75,000 staff will transfer to Health New Zealand on existing terms and conditions.
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Keeping up with the mountain of research, reviews and reports is a head-spinner. Simon Maude went searching on the web pages of Parliament’s Health Select Committee and the Ministry of Health
Health and Independence Report 2019
Released on 9 March, the 53-page report presents the latest data on measures of health, including life expectan
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Pandemic or no pandemic, running a general practice is increasingly complex, and responsibility for administration, finances, technology and people, lands with the practice manager