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Poor mental health earlier in life leads to poor physical health in later life, according to a new study. A collaboration between the University of Auckland, the University of Michigan and Duke University in the US, the study investigated 50 years ... Read more...

The National Iwi Chairs Forum [NICF] Pandemic Response Group has today issued six priority recommendations to the Government. We are extremely proud of the combined efforts of Government, Māori Organisations and the public at large that have avoided ... Read more...

The Ministry of Health has for the first time acknowledged the correlation between sustainable diets and the climate emergency. The Ministry’s new eating guidelines say there is an urgent need to promote diets that are healthy and have low environmental ... Read more...

The country’s Catholic bishops are strongly urging their faithful and everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand to get a Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available. NZ Catholic Bishops Conference President, Cardinal John Dew, cited this country’s 2019-20 measles ... Read more...

here are seven new cases of COVID-19 to report in managed isolation in New Zealand since our last media statement on Monday. There are no new cases in the community. Of the new border cases: New border case details Arrival date From Via Positive test ... Read more...

The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) will again be the principal sponsor for New Zealand’s first national primary healthcare awards. ACC is sponsoring the patient safety award, which celebrates excellence in safe practice. The award recognises ... Read more...

A series of temporary COVID-19 testing sites will be popping up across the district throughout January to aid in MidCentral communities efforts to remain free of the virus. As people start to return from their summer holidays and head back to work, ... Read more...

New figures released by KnowYourStuffNZ show that drug checking this summer resulted in the vast majority of people who attended drug checking choosing not to take the harmful cathinone eutylone, where it turned out they had unwittingly purchased it. ... Read more...

The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) will again be the principal sponsor for New Zealand’s first national primary healthcare awards. ACC is sponsoring the patient safety award, which celebrates excellence in safe practice. The award recognises ... Read more...

There are four new cases of COVID-19 to report in managed isolation in New Zealand since our last media statement on Sunday. There are no new cases in the community. Of the new border cases: Arrival date: 6 January - One case arrived from Russia via ... Read more...