2021 Newsletters

Overhauling our Health System
Our Nation’s Shame – Maternal Suicide
AWHC Annual Report 2020
Another Attempt to Rewrite History: challenging suggestions to honour Herbert Green
News Briefs:

• Possible new endometriosis treatment
• Johnson & Johnson loses court appeal over surgical mesh injuries
• Miscarriage Bereavement Bill
• Contraception, Sterilisation, And Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill

The New ‘Face’ of AWHC
ACC’s Discrimination against Women, Māori and Pāsifika 
Celebrating Dame Cindy Kiro
AWHC Lobbies for Removing Barriers to Cervical Screening
Abortion Safe Areas Amendment Update
Ombudsman Highly Critical of HDC
Calls for a National Women’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy
Update on Government Plans for Health System Overhaul

Watchdogs, Advocates and Lobbyists – the continuing relevance of women’s health NGOs

ALCL – the latest danger for women with breast implants

Making the Newsletter Accessible

Stop Press – Changes to ACC Legislation Imminent

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A National Women’s Health Plan

COVID and women’s wellbeing: New feminist analyses

Progressing the New Health System

A Matter of Justice and Human Rights: The importance of the right to appeal HDC decisions

Placing Children Front and Centre: AWHC submissions on Aotearoa New Zealand’s adoption and surrogacy law reform

Consumers Improving the Health System

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Pae Ora: a healthy Future for All New Zealanders?

The Consultation Process and Submission Timeline

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Significant Omissions

Focus on Achieving and Maintaining Health

Patient Safety

We Must Have a Patient/Consumer-Centred Health System

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