The Ministry of Health today launched a two-month public consultation period on a proposed regulatory scheme for the fast-growing natural health products industry.

Disability Services Consumer Consortium

Tawa Room, Brentwood Hotel, Kilbirnie

Hon Tariana Turia, Minister of Disability Issues / Associate Minister of Health

Thursday 18 March 2010; 11am

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is very concerned by the changes the Ministry of Health has signalled it will be making.

A Counties Manukau PHO is demanding an apology and retraction from the Ministry of Health after the release of what the PHO says is inaccurate performance data.

Ministry staff found out about 135 planned job losses today

Around 135 staff at the Ministry of Health will lose their jobs in the next 15 months under plans for a restructuring unveiled today.

"We're concerned about the impact of cutting a further 135 jobs at the Ministry of Health on top of the 201 jobs the government cut at the Ministry last year," says Public Service Association national secretary Brenda Pilott.

Please attribute these comments to the Director-General of Health Stephen McKernan.

The Ministry of Health today released a proposal for consultation with staff about the structure of the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Health's media around the Public Health Mapua Report is an attempt to whitewash a very serious situation, the Green Party said today.

Expert advice to the Ministry of Health is that it is unlikely there are adverse long-term health effects for local residents from the Mapua clean-up process.

Wellington, March 15 NZPA - League tables showing which primary health organisations (PHOs) are doing best -- and worst -- at meeting community health needs have been released by the Ministry of Health for the first time.