Free Nitrate Water Testing Southland May 2026
Is your drinking water safe? Free nitrate testing is back in Southland, and the results may surprise you.
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Police Mental Health Withdrawal Plan In Crisis
Police have hit pause on a dangerous mental health withdrawal plan after workers warned patients and frontline staff were being put at risk.
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Overdose Good Samaritan Law Debated In Parliament
Nearly three people a week die from preventable overdoses in New Zealand. A new law aims to stop fear from becoming a death sentence.
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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.
