Van Velden emphasized that the goal is not to compromise worker safety but to ensure that safety protocols are proportionate to the risks involved.

Although the new system - Health New Zealand - will mean Chandler's role will end,he said the health reform "paves the way" to rethink how healthcare is designed to meet the community's needs.

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The reforms will mean that for the first time, New Zealand will have a truly national health system, and the kind of treatment people get will no longer be determined by where they live, he said.

New Zealand’s once-in-a-generation health reforms offer a logical time to undertake workforce reforms. We need to learn from our own historical mistakes and avoid disconnecting the workforce ...

The country’s new center-right coalition is repealing a ban on the sale of tobacco to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2009, which critics say will cost lives. A smoker in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2012.

Public health modelling conducted in 2022 had shown the Smokefree policy would have saved New Zealand's health system about US$1.3bn (£630m) over the next 20 years.

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