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Aged Care funding and service improvements

· October 1, 2025

Source: New Zealand Government A new system for delivering home care services for older people, focusing on restorative care, begins in the South Island today. “This is one of a...

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Rural health roadshow is in Thames today

· October 1, 2025

Source: New Zealand Government Associate Health Minister with responsibility for Rural Health Matt Doocey and Minister for Rural Communities Mark Patterson are in Thames today to hear directly from the...

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Update: Gisborne homicide

· September 30, 2025

Source: New Zealand Police Police are continuing to make enquiries following the death of a man in Gisborne on Monday morning. Police were called to an address on Ormond Road,...

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Certainty for medical device procurement

· September 30, 2025

Source: New Zealand Government Medical device procurement will be more efficient, more certain, and more transparent, Associate Health Minister David Seymour and Health Minister Simeon Brown say. Cabinet has agreed...

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Greymouth next stop on Rural health roadshow

· September 30, 2025

Source: New Zealand Government Associate Health Minister with responsibility for Rural Health Matt Doocey and Minister for Rural Communities Mark Patterson are in Greymouth today for the latest stop on...

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Strengthening prostate cancer care in Southern

· September 29, 2025

Source: New Zealand Government New Zealand’s first Advanced Practitioner Radiation Therapist specialising in prostate cancer is transforming care for men in the lower South Island, Health Minister Simeon Brown says....

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Cath lab upgrade complete at Christchurch Hospital

· September 27, 2025

Source: New Zealand Government The upgrade of Christchurch Hospital’s cardiac catheterisation (cath) laboratory is now complete and open to patients, marking a major milestone in the delivery of world-class cardiac...

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New Mental Health Unit opens in Palmerston North

· September 26, 2025

Source: New Zealand Government Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey today officially opened Ngā Wai Ngāro, a new acute mental health facility at Palmerston North Hospital. “This new unit marks...