HEALTH
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Te Whatu Ora unable to confirm which hospital departments are safely staffed
Rachel Thomas (Post): Is Health NZ overspending or underfunded? (paywalled)
Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘I have never known morale so low’: Senior doctors, nurses push back on plans to save $1.4 billion in ‘overburdened’ health system
1News: Rob Campbell on health reform: 'Change required but not this'
Herald: Health NZ board sacking: PM Christopher Luxon, former Health boss Rob Campbell on change
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): A $1.4bn turnaround job for Health NZ
Richard Harman (Politik): HealthNZ and Luxon at cross purposes over budget blowout (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Beehive assumes close control of Health NZ, Labour blames Budget underfunding
RNZ: Politics live: Fallout from Health New Zealand's budget woes
RNZ: Health reform blowout is government's responsibility - Labour
Thomas Manch and Anna Whyte (Post): Jobs and primary healthcare on the line as Govt stems $130m a month bleed (paywalled)
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Dr Shane Reti to replace Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand Board with commissioner after agency heading for $1.4b deficit
Felix Desmarais (1News): 'Turnaround' job: Health NZ board sacked, commissioner appointed
RNZ: Government to replace Health NZ board with commissioner
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Health NZ unable to stay within its budget after a period of high inflation and fast population growth
Anna Whyte (Post): Government replaces Health NZ board with commissioner, claims merger ‘botched’ (paywalled)
Irra Lee (1News): National's 13 cancer drugs left out of Budget after costings issues
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: NZ’s mental health crisis: Matt Doocey says system ‘not good enough’
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): I'm truly confused over Dr Anthony Jordan's resignation from Pharmac
RNZ: First Union accuses Hato Hone St John of being misleading about staffing levels
Public Health Communication Centre Aotearoa: Increasing whooping cough cases put pēpi at risk. What can be done about it?
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Trinity Koha dental clinic brings relief for Gisborne māmā
RNZ: Covid-19: 2414 new cases, 22 further deaths
ABUSE IN STATE AND FAITH-BASED CARE
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): ‘Horrific and harrowing’ facts to be laid bare in Royal Commission report into abuse in care
Michael Morrah (Herald): Young women who say they were abused in Oranga Tamariki care call for agency to be stripped of its responsibilities
Kate Green (RNZ): Acknowledgement is vital to healing, key figures in Abuse in Care inquiry say
Julia Gabel (Herald): PM Christopher Luxon to make formal apology for abuse in state and faith-based care
RNZ: PM Christopher Luxon to make public apology for abuse in state and faith-based care
Anna Whyte (Post): Government to make formal apology for care abuse (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Te Pati Māori political donations scandal gets worse
Bryce Edwards (ODT): Attack on Trump a warning for NZ
1News: PM 'ducking for cover' from media questions - opposition
Herald: Shane Jones: Even smaller rural investments can make big community outcomes
Bryan Bruce: Treaty Principles Bill an act of bad faith
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Is Christopher Luxon a political grim reaper? The evidence suggests yes
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