2016 Newsletters

February 2016
  • “The Patient Will See You Now”
  • Merck admits Keytruda data misleading
  • The switch to HPV primary screening
  • Consultation on Primary birthing units for West Auckland & North Shore
  • New MSCC leaflet – “Choosing Where to Labour & Birth: The Facts”
March 2016
  • Tackling childhood obesity
  • Health365
  • Ministry of Health Report on Maternity for 2014
  • AWHC AGM – 7 April 2016 
  • Paid parental leave extended to 18 weeks
April 2016
  • National Health Committee bites the dust
  • More on tackling childhood obesity
  • Abortion Supervisory Committee Report for 2014/2015
  • Bowel Screening Pilot Update
  • Breast Cancer Network AGM – 9 May 2016
May 2016
  • Changes to cervical screening
  • Relocation of Gisborne Inquiry website
  • HDC review of drug trials
  • National Maternity Clinical Information System
  • Cartwright Collective Conference on the control of cervical cancer and the future of cervical screening in NZ – Friday 5 August 2016
June 2016
  • Cashing in on Pregnancy Test Kits
  • “Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo”
  • Update on the Mesh
  • Cartwright Collective Conference on the control of cervical cancer and the future of cervical screening in NZ – Friday 5 August 2016
July 2016
  • New Zealand Health Strategy: Future Direction
  • Reducing the Maori SUDI rate
  • Bloodletting – the 3,000-year-old placebo
  • Cartwright Collective Conference on the control of cervical cancer and the future of cervical screening in NZ – Friday 5 August 2016
August 2016
  • The Government’s new screening strategy – get rid of the messenger
  • Doctors who breach sexual boundaries
  • Update on funding for wahakura and pepi-pods
  • Women’s Health Action’s Annual Suffrage Commemoration with Louise Nicholas – Monday 19 September 2016
September 2016
  • National Women’s Health Annual Clinical Report day
  • 2015 NWH Annual Report
  • Ministry of Health to “consider” a surgical mesh registry
  • Women’s Health Action’s Suffrage Commemoration with Louise Nicholas
October 2016
  • New study confirms HRT increases risk of breast cancer
  • Alcohol regulations review needed
  • Consultation on NCSP Clinical Guidelines
  • National Screening Unit hosts two roadshow events
November 2016
  • Tarceva – the wonder drug that wasn’t
  • Research participants not covered by ACC
  • NSU’s “consultation” meetings
  • NZ Bioethics conference “Bioethics and Health Law in the Information Age”
December 2016
  • HDC consultation on non-consensual research in New Zealand
  • The AWHC seeks a new co-ordinator
  • Essure now carries an FDA warning
  • Paracetamol use linked to childhood asthma
  • NZ Bioethics conference “Bioethics and Health Law in the Information Age”