8 Mar 2024

Health Minister outlines 5 major health targets

From Midday Report, 12:44 pm on 8 March 2024

The Health Minister and Prime Minister are laying out five major health targets, completing the Coalition government's first 100-day plan.

The targets will likely include immunisation and cancer treatment, with more detail being unveiled by Dr Shane Reti right now.

So what will this announcement mean for general practice, an area of the health system that the Health Minister himself says is "broken"?

Royal New Zealand College of GPs president Dr Samantha Murton spoke to Charlotte Cook.