Health
'Uncomfortable': now no meetings
Bath-time ducky 'very yucky'
Government-funded bowel cancer programme out dated
The Government's decision to fund a $24 million bowel cancer screening pilot is a step in the right direction, but it is not the most effective way to deal with the country's most frequently diagno
$24m for bowel cancer screening
A bowel cancer screening pilot costing $24 million over the next four years will be funded in the May 20 budget, Health Minister Tony Ryall said today.
Meetings for aged care review start next week
A review of the state of aged care in New Zealand being undertaken by Grey Power and opposition parties gets under way with a series of 19 nation-wide meetings starting next week.
Doctors accused of greed
Top staff at SDHB may have to reapply for jobs
Some of the Southern District Health Board's (SDHB) top staff may have to reapply for their jobs in a review of the board's new provider arm.
Southern health board to hold first meeting
One of the first actions of the Southern District Health Board at its inaugural meeting tomorrow is likely to be deciding to apply to the Government for $7 million in deficit funding.
Doctor cleared of privacy breach
Wellington, May 4 NZPA - An Invercargill doctor who was reprimanded by the Privacy Commissioner for telling a nursing home one of its employees was a drug addict has been cleared of any wrongdoing in a judicial review.
The High Court at Wellington found commissioner Marie Shroff wrongly ruled against general practitioner Robert Henderson over the 2003 disclosure.