Free Dental Care NZ Would Cost Less Than Current System
How many more Kiwis need to suffer in pain before politicians admit dental care is healthcare? A new report says New Zealand can afford free dental care now.
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Free Dental Care NZ Would Cost Less Than Status Quo
The cruelty is the cost. Free dental care isn’t some wild luxury — it’s what happens when a country remembers mouths are part of bodies.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Failing kidney patients symptomatic of health system crisis; health system needs its own mantra
Dialysis rationing is not bad luck. It is the brutal bill for a health system that ignored prevention, ignored clinicians, and called chaos reform.
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Calling out Health New Zealand for intimidation of nurses
When nurses speak up about safety — should they be threatened for it?
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Action needed on widespread drinking water problems
You turn on the tap — and you’re told not to drink it. How is this still happening in New Zealand?
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Understanding Cuba’s health system helps to better understand New Zealand’s
Cuba shouldn’t outperform wealthier nations in healthcare. But in key ways — it does.
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Alliance Party Calls For Aged Care Investment In West Coast Bed Crisis
More than 50 beds gone. An ageing population rising. And nowhere for people to go except already stretched hospitals.
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Greenpeace challenges MPs to drink nitrate-contaminated water at Parliament
If it’s safe, drink it. That’s the challenge Greenpeace just laid down on Parliament’s lawn — and it cuts straight through years of political avoidance on nitrate contamination.
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9,000 students faced unsafe drinking water at school last year – Greens
If kids can’t trust the water at school, something fundamental has gone wrong.
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Kaitiaki Hauora – Together for Public Health, a powerful voice for the health system
Kaitiaki Hauora – Together for Public Health signals a renewed fight for equitable, publicly funded healthcare in Aotearoa as pressure on the system intensifies.
