About us Mō mātou

About the Ministry of Health and the New Zealand health system. 

Regulation & legislation Ngā here me ngā ture

Health providers and products we regulate, and laws we administer.

Strategies & initiatives He rautaki, he tūmahi hou

How we’re working to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders.

Māori health Hauora Māori

Increasing access to health services, achieving equity and improving outcomes for Māori.

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Data and insights from our health surveys, research and monitoring.

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  • Rollout of new medicines across New Zealand begins

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    1 October marks the first day a range of new medicines, including cancer medicines, will start to become available in hospitals and health centres across New Zealand.

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  • Designing Cancer Control Programme for Polynesia

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    Manatū Hauora’s Polynesian Health Corridors (PHC) programme is working with partners to design a multi-year cancer control programme to improve cancer outcomes in Polynesia

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  • Te Aho o Te Kahu Cancer Control Agency

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    Te Aho o Te Kahu Cancer Control Agency is a departmental agency reporting directly to the Minister of Health and hosted by the Ministry of Health.

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  • New cancer registrations 2019

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    These annually published interactive tables and graphs provide high-level data on cancer registrations in 2019.

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  • New cancer registrations 2018

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    These annually published interactive tables provide high-level data on cancer registrations in 2018

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  • Cancer: Historical summary 1948–2017

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    These tables contain cancer registration and death data for selected cancers by sex, from 1948–2017.

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  • Longer, Healthier Lives: New Zealand’s Health 1990–2017

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    This publication provides an overview of the health of New Zealanders and explores how our health has changed over the past quarter of a century using Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) as an integrated measure of poor health and premature death.

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  • New Zealand Cancer Action Plan 2019–2029

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    The New Zealand Cancer Action Plan 2019–2029 sets out the actions required to achieve a sustainable system that enables New Zealanders to have fewer cancers, better survival rates and equitable outcomes.

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  • New cancer registrations 2017

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    These annually published interactive tables and graphs provide high-level data on cancer registrations in 2017. They include information about the most common cancers registered and breakdowns by common demographic variables. The data is provided in multiple formats.

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  • Selected Cancers 2015, 2016, 2017

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    These tables present registration data for 10 selected cancers in New Zealand for 2015, 2016 and 2017. Numbers and rates of cancer registrations are presented by ethnic group, age group and sex

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  • New cancer registrations 2016

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    These annually published interactive tables and graphs provide high-level data on cancer registrations in 2016. They include information about the most common cancers registered and breakdowns by common demographic variables

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