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NZHR oral submission on the health reforms legislation
Chief Executive Chris Higgins today presented NZHR’s submission on the health reforms legislation to the Pae Ora Legislation Committee. We recommended that the Bill be enhanced to improve the likelihood of the reformed health system’s saving lives by including • a requirement for all components of the reformed health system to adopt an overt evidence…
Read MoreHealth Research Saves Lives! December 2021
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Read MoreOpen letter to Minister of Finance, Hon Grant Robertson
Responses to NZHR’s attempts to engage with MBIE officials directly to increase health research investment allocations in the 2022 Budget have been inconclusive. The officials did indicate however that the government’s finances were coming under increasing pressure from the costs of responding to Covid 19 and that the Minister of Finance is therefore not viewing…
Read MoreNZHR’s submission on the health reforms legislation
NZHR has made a submission on the health reforms Bill. We set out our concerns about the New Zealand health system’s apparent historical indifference to the most fundamental of health outcomes – the country’s high and increasing levels of premature mortality – coupled with a longstanding systemic resistance to embracing health research and innovation as…
Read MoreHealth Research Saves Lives! November 2021
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Read MoreWhat does a health research embedded New Zealand health system look like?
New Zealanders for Health Research is developing a “compelling case” for embedding health research into the reformed health system, and describing what that will look like. It will be based on NZHR’s submission to the Health Transition Unit (HTU), will include a specifically Te Ao Māori lens, and be informed by the results of our…
Read MorePeter Shepherd & Dave Grattan
Bio-medical Research the Key out of the Next Health Crisis. Read more
Read MoreAdvocating for increased investment in health research
Over the last couple of years NZHR has attempted to secure increased government investment in health research through the Finance and Expenditure Committee Budget Policy Statement formal submission processes. However in both years it was our experience that by that time key budget decisions had already made and that opportunities to influence any outcomes were…
Read MoreNZHR 2021 Annual Report
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Read MoreGenetically modified organisms and health research
Despite references in the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO) Act to “rapid assessment” the reality is that the process of gaining approval to develop and use genetically modified organisms (GMOs) typically takes months. Clinical research organisations which are developing new GMO based therapies for hitherto untreatable or hard to treat conditions, which have secured…
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