7 June 2013
New touch-screen technology is increasing the time district nurses spend caring for their patients says Health Minister Tony Ryall.
5 June 2013
HWNZ has been tasked with developing strategies, implementing programmes and driving initiatives to create a more flexible and dynamic health workforce that will enable the country to cope with increasing demand of health services in the future.
31 May 2013
The Government is driving change in the quality of aged care to keep older residents safe and well in the community. The Government has committed $70 million of new spending to aged care and training for staff.
29 May 2013
The first recipients of the Medibank Community Fund scholarships for Pacific nurses will be recognised at a Pasifika Medical Association function to honour and celebrate the work of the association in developing the Pacific health workforce.
16 May 2013
Professional bodies have been giving consideration to a potential way forward for the development of the Physician Assistant (PA) role in New Zealand.
16 May 2013
Southern DHB has become the first district health board to introduce mobile technology to District Nurses.
9 May 2013
The submissions for the Review of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 have been posted.
9 May 2013
We recently held a clinical leadership workshop for members of the New Zealand Medical Students’ Association, introducing them to our work and getting their feedback on health workforce development.
1 May 2013
Registration of Interest for the Voluntary Bonding Scheme’s fifth intake (2013) is open for doctors, nurses, midwives, radiation therapists and medical physicists until 24 May.
1 May 2013
The registration of interest process for 2013 is now open and closes at 5pm on Friday 24 May 2013. New graduates and GPEP1 trainees* can apply now.
24 April 2013
Almost 90 percent of internationally trained migrant doctors who took part in HWNZ's NZREX Preparation Placement Programme have successfully registered to work in New Zealand.
19 April 2013
A new streamlined process for assessing medicines sold over the counter takes effect this week marking a major step towards establishing a single Trans-Tasman regulatory agency for therapeutic products.
17 April 2013
The registration of interest process for the Voluntary Bonding Scheme (VBS) 2013 will open Monday 29 April 2013 and close at 5pm on Friday 24 May 2013.
5 April 2013
The year is well underway and we are now immersed in strategic planning for the next financial year.
22 March 2013
The new Health education facility, Wikitoria Katene, at Whitireia was officially opened yesterday by the Hon Tony Ryall, Minister of Health.
28 March 2013
A world-leading ‘virtual radiation therapy training system’ which will radically improve the teaching of radiation therapy was launched by the Minister of Health, Tony Ryall, at the University of Otago, Wellington (UOW) earlier this month.
22 March 2013
Hon Tony Ryall officially launched the Rural Health Inter-professional Immersion Programme in Whakatane earlier this month.
1 March 2013
It has been a busy start to the year with many of our work programmes demonstrating outcomes in-line with the Government’s priorities and health targets.
18 February 2013
Hon Peter Dunne has opened the University of Auckland Health System Symposium in Oman.
18 February 2013
Health Workforce NZ is supporting Gore Health Ltd to demonstrate several exciting new health technologies.
