District Health Boards are to share some appointed board members to strengthen DHB collaboration and add financial capacity.

Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced new members and new Terms of Reference for the Cancer Control Council.

The Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced the founder of Christchurch's Skope Industries, Mr Robert Stewart as new chair of the Health Research Council. 

Finding a health professional or health facility's website and email addresses will become easier with the ".health.nz" domain launched by Health Minister Tony Ryall today.

The Government is moving to achieve the unrealised goals of the Primary Health Care Strategy, announced Health Minister Tony Ryall.

"The Government has put on hold the Drinking Water Subsidy Scheme to enable a review aimed at ensuring best use of the money in the scheme," Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced.

Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced a record increase in elective surgery for the financial year just ended.

"We are a small population spread across a large distance and we need to use our few resources wisely" says Health Minister Tony Ryall.

Health Minister Tony Ryall has released the report of the Ministerial Review Group, set up to recommend how New Zealand might improve the quality and performance of the public health system.

New Zealand's junior doctor workforce is characterised by long standing dissatisfaction, industrial conflict and many poor training experiences according to the Resident Medical Officer (RMO) Commi

Health Minister Tony Ryall today announced a new national health workforce training board to unify workforce planning in New Zealand.

Extra supply of vaccine has been bought by the Ministry of Health as one of the measures to combat the current measles outbreak.

Health Minister Tony Ryall has told Parliament today that Pharmac's planning is well advanced on how it will spend tens of millions of dollars in new medicines funding.

Health Minister Tony Ryall and Associate Health Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman today announced the new plan for more inpatient and residential eating disorder services for people in the top half of t

Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced that Waikato DHB has signed a $118 million construction contract with Hawkins Construction Ltd to build the new Waikato Clinical Centre.

The country's leading heart surgeons have formed the National Cardiac Clinical Network to lead much needed reform of New Zealand's cardiac surgical services.  

The Government has agreed in principle to offer frontline health staff and emergency personnel vaccination against Swine Flu, the new pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus.