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1 week ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Ruth Hill
It is seven months since Queenstown girl Meila Davis died of an aggressive bone cancer. She was just 13. Her mother, Kristin Davis, said Meila wanted to die at home among the people she loved. "She hated being in hospital, so that was never going to be an option. She wanted to be at home. That was her happy place."However, she said the family, which had relocated to Christchurch for Meila's treatment, did struggle initially after moving back to Queenstown with the lack of palliative care support.
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1 week ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Ruth Hill
$31b for Health in Budget 2025 just 3.6 percent increase, compared with what was "actually spent" in 2024/25, Professor Tim Tenbensel says Most of last year's boost to HNZ's bottom-line "absorbed" by Holidays Act remediation payouts to staff Axing pay equity settlements in the health sector "saved" the Government $420m.
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1 week ago | 
radionz.co.nz | Ruth Hill
Northland heart patients and doctors say it is harder to get specialist care there. Health NZ says there's no difference in "threshold" for care between Northland and Auckland. Recruitment is underway for a sixth specialist. The Heart Foundation says there's a lack of specialist services in some regions, leading to worse outcomes for patients.
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1 week ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Ruth Hill
Northland heart patients and doctors say it is harder to get specialist care there. Health NZ says there's no difference in "threshold" for care between Northland and Auckland. Recruitment is underway for a sixth specialist. The Heart Foundation says there's a lack of specialist services in some regions, leading to worse outcomes for patients.
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2 weeks ago | 
odt.co.nz | Ruth Hill
You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. NewsNationalBy Ruth Hill of RNZBlood cancer patients, advocates and doctors say the lack of new funding for medicines in the Budget locks in four more years of "denied access and patient harm".
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2 weeks ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Ruth Hill
Blood cancer patients, advocates and doctors say the lack of new funding for medicines in the Budget locks in four more years of "denied access and patient harm". There was a huge public backlash after last year's Budget failed to include promised funding for more cancer drugs, forcing the government to subsequently announce an extra $604 million for Pharmac over four years.
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2 weeks ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Ruth Hill
Blood cancer patients, advocates and doctors say the lack of new funding for medicines in the Budget locks in four more years of "denied access and patient harm". There was a huge public backlash after last year's Budget failed to include promised funding for more cancer drugs, forcing the government to subsequently announce an extra $604 million for Pharmac over four years.
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2 weeks ago | 
radionz.co.nz | Ruth Hill
Wellington toddler Sophie-Grace has cystic fibrosis, which means she is regularly admitted to hospital with lung infections. Her dad Ben Butler-Hogg said the family had been hoping Budget 2025 would include a further cash injection for Pharmac, to allow it to increase access to the drug Trikafta for two to five-year-olds, like her. But it was not to be. "The medication that we get today will remove burden from our infrastructure," Butler-Hogg said.
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2 weeks ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Ruth Hill
Wellington toddler Sophie-Grace has cystic fibrosis, which means she is regularly admitted to hospital with lung infections. Her dad Ben Butler-Hogg said the family had been hoping Budget 2025 would include a further cash injection for Pharmac, to allow it to increase access to the drug Trikafta for two to five-year-olds, like her. But it was not to be. "The medication that we get today will remove burden from our infrastructure," Butler-Hogg said.
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2 weeks ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Ruth Hill
picture id="4K747KF_HEALTH_WEB_png" crop="16x10" layout="thumbnail"]Wellington toddler Sophie-Grace has cystic fibrosis, which means she is regularly admitted to hospital with lung infections. Her dad Ben Butler-Hogg said the family had been hoping Budget 2025 would include a further cash injection for Pharmac, to allow it to increase access to the drug Trikafta for two to five-year-olds, like her. But it was not to be.
