National prevention service cuts – a body-blow to health
Source: Health Coalition Aotearoa — A proposal to cut 55 positions and 300 currently vacant roles from a health service responsible for preventing disease and keeping people out of our over-stressed, […]
Smokefree 2025 plan – a recipe for failure
Source: Health Coalition Aotearoa The Getting to Smokefree 2025 Plan launched by Associate Minister of Health Casey Costello today will fail to achieve its aim as it excludes key population-based strategies, […]
Urgent action needed to address Aotearoa’s shameful household food insecurity
Media Release November 20, 2024 The Government must act swiftly to address the shameful increase in rates of food insecurity facing nearly a third of children in Aotearoa, and the […]
Call to mandate system as Health Star Rating fails second target for voluntary uptake
The clock is ticking for Ministers on both sides of the Tasman to mandate the Health Star Rating (HSR) system as the food industry has failed to meet yet another […]
Lunches contract goes to companies with poor track record on food quality and service
Source: Health Coalition Aotearoa — Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) has significant concerns about the quality, nutritional standards and quality controls for the new school lunches programme. British-based multinational Compass Group, the […]
Luxon must stand Costello down and reverse tobacco tax cut decision
The Prime Minister must take action on his Government’s disastrous tobacco control policy after the latest in a long series of pro-tobacco industry moves by Associate Minister of Health Casey […]
Auckland alcohol policy an important step in battle for safer, healthier communities
Auckland Council’s approval of a Local Alcohol Policy (LAP) today is an important step towards greater health, wellbeing and safety for residents – but bolder national regulations are also needed […]
NZ First need to come clean on lobbying by Philip Morris
Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) is calling for NZ First to declare its connections with and donations from Philip Morris New Zealand, following a story by RNZ’s Guyon Espiner published today. […]
Growing perceptions of corruption in New Zealand’s political system need urgent action
Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) strongly endorses calls for tough action to protect our political processes from perceptions of corruption, outlined in a new report released by the Helen Clark Foundation […]
Government’s smokefree plan will accelerate youth nicotine addiction and boost tobacco industry profits
The Government’s new path to achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa by making more tobacco and nicotine products available will open the floodgates for nicotine addiction of our young people and will […]
