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The healthcare system of New Zealand has undergone significant changes throughout the past several decades. From an essentially fully public system based on the Social Security Act 1938, reforms have introduced market and health insurance elements primarily since the 1980s, creating a mixed public-private system for delivering healthcare. [1] [2]
Nursing in New Zealand is a specialist career with advanced educational requirements. Since the 19th century, the profession has evolved from on-the-job training in hospitals to a degree-level profession studied in technical institutes and universities. Due to New Zealand's geographic and geopolitical position, the country's nursing profession ...
COVID-19 managed isolation in New Zealand. Managed isolation and quarantine ( MIQ) was a quarantine system implemented by the New Zealand Government during the country's COVID-19 pandemic. Under the system, people entering New Zealand, COVID-19 positive cases and some of their close contacts were required to isolate at an MIQ facility for 14 days.
New Zealand Army Nursing Service. The New Zealand Army Nursing Service (NZANS) formally came into being in early 1915, when the Army Council in London accepted an offer of nurses to help in the war effort during the First World War from the New Zealand Government. The heavy losses experienced in the Gallipoli campaign cemented the need for the ...
The first case of the disease in New Zealand was reported on 28 February 2020. The country recorded over 2,274,370 cases (2,217,047 confirmed and 57,323 probable [ a ] ). Over 3,000 people died as a result of the pandemic, with cases recorded in all twenty district health board (DHB) areas. [ 1 ]
This is a list of hospitals in New Zealand. It includes hospitals certified by the Ministry of Health, such as public hospitals, maternity centres, private surgical centres, psychiatric hospitals and hospices. It does not include facilities which are not certified hospitals, such as accident and emergency centres, general practice clinics ...
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation ( NZNO) is New Zealand's largest trade union and professional organisation that represents the nursing profession, midwives and caregivers . It is one of the oldest organisations of this type in the world, tracing its lineage back to the Wellington Private Nurses Association formed in 1905.
New Zealand military ranks are largely based on those of the United Kingdom. The three services (Army, Navy, and Air Force) have their own rank structure, with a rank equivalency that allows seamless interoperability between the services. All three services form part of the New Zealand Defence Force.