The crisis in aged care is not limited to New Zealand. The Australian government has just completed a review of the sector and adopted the aged care taskforce’s 23 recommendations. One major change is ...

However, there is a way to alleviate the capacity problems in Whanganui: support GPs to do more and better work. The New Zealand Herald reported this week that Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora has ...

In what is a first in Aotearoa, Dunedin will host the inaugural Taurite Tū games, bringing kaumātua – older Māori adults – from around New Zealand together to celebrate this nationwide programme for ...

A majority of frontline doctors polled by Specialty Trainees of New Zealand (STONZ), a union for Resident Medical Officers (RMOs), are reporting serious concerns about the impact of cost pressures on ...

Of our 201 research participants, 12.9% had a genetic variant identified as “causal”. A further 15.9% had variants defined as ...

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Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) begins next Monday 23 September. This year’s theme is 'Community is… what we create together', focusing on the power of community in uplifting our collective ...

A Cabinet paper from Budget 2024 released last week shows a $138 million Te Whatu Ora IT project, which was supposed to modernise the commissioning and payments systems for publicly funded health ...

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A young generation of digital natives show a clear preference for receiving in-person mental health support rather than getting help virtually, new research led by the University of Otago, Wellington, ...

An in-depth study of adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection concludes that children under 5 years old have a different response compared with older children and adults. The findings make it ...

The Clinical Informatics Award is back in its sixth year, promoting the value that clinicians bring to whānau and community in providing data and digitally enabled care. The 2024 award is open to ...