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.
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ACT Thinks Booze Will Fix the Economy
As hardship grows across New Zealand, ACT’s push to make alcohol easier to access raises a serious question — is this economic policy, or political distraction?
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NZ First go full cooker against WHO
NZ First’s rejection of WHO pandemic rules highlights Winston Peters’ shift toward anti-vaccine rhetoric and conspiracy-aligned politics.
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Economy is collapsing and ACT thinks making it easier to buy booze is the solution?
ACT’s alcohol law changes raise serious questions as New Zealand faces rising costs, unemployment and growing hardship.
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Risks To Patients Of Health IT Cuts Laid Bare In Explosive Report Ignored By Government – PSA
They were warned IT cuts would impact patient care — and ignored it. Now outages and failures are exposing the real cost.
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Child poverty, social determinants of health, and the limits of balance sheet thinking
Child poverty in New Zealand is not inevitable — but it is driving rising health system demand and exposing the limits of balance sheet-driven policy.
