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Hon Tony Ryall is the Opposition Health Spokesman. He represents the Bay of Plenty Electorate, that spans from the top of the Kaimai Ranges and the fast-growing suburbs of Tauranga City (Papamoa, Bayfair, Maungatapu, Welcome Bay, and Ohauiti) through Te Puke and on to the Whakatane River. First elected as MP for East Cape in 1990, Mr Ryall won his seat from the Labour Party. Following boundary changes he represented Eastern Bay of Plenty electorate (1993-96) and Bay of Plenty electorate (1996- ). Before becoming Health Spokesman at the 2005 election, Mr Ryall was Opposition spokesman on Law and Order for some six years.
Government-commissioned research into why parents and caregivers don't complete pre-school immunisations shows that, in most cases, these people aren't opposed to immunisation.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Health Minister Tony Ryall says the entire health service, both public and private, is pulling together to support Canterbury following yesterday's earthquake.
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The Government's billion-dollar-plus extra investment in health is delivering returns for New Zealanders, with the country's childhood immunisation rate now at a record level.
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Four district health boards (DHBs) are testing new ways of treating kidney disease.
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Cabinet last week approved re-opening the drinking water subsidy scheme for small communities of under 5,000 people.
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State Services Minister Tony Ryall says New Zealanders will be proud their public sector continues to lead the world in integrity.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall and Associate Minister Peter Dunne say there are more dental staff delivering front line public health services, and fewer pre-school and primary school age children are waiting for their scheduled appointments.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall is concerned that the Diabetes Get Checked programme is not reaching enough of the people it is designed to be helping.
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The Government is making good progress in fixing never-ending delays In the country's emergency departments, Health Minister Tony Ryall has told a health conference in Taupo.
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"More patients were assessed by surgical specialists in the past year than ever before, according new official figures released by the Ministry of Health.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall is encouraging New Zealanders to support Breast Cancer Action Month.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall is declining a request to allow self-funded chemotherapy drugs to be administered in Dunedin Hospital.
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The release of the New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing framework (NZGOAL) today is a significant step towards increasing the release of government held material for re-use, and more open and transparent government, says Minister of State Services Tony Ryall.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced Pharmac is to extend its successful approach to the management and procurement of community pharmaceuticals to hospital medicines.
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Lung cancer accounts for the most deaths from cancer according to figures released today by the Ministry of Health.
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The Government has announced an additional $2.1 billion investment in health priorities over the next four years - including an extra $512 million in 2010/11.
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"For the first time New Zealand has hit the national health target for immunisation.
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The seasonal flu vaccination programme has seen more than 900,000 doses of vaccine distributed throughout the country.
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The Health Minister Tony Ryall has officially opened Capital and Coast DHB's new high dose brachytherapy* bunker for cancer treatment, this morning.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced the appointment of Errol Millar as the chair of the new Southern District Health Board, which is being formed by the amalgamation of the Southland and Otago DHBs.
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The largest ever annual increase in waiting list patients receiving elective surgery happened in 2009 according to official figures released today by Health Minister Tony Ryall.
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The Government will inject an extra $7 million immediately and another $20 million over the next two years to reduce waiting times and meet spiralling costs for equipment and modification services for disabled people.
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Clinicians are being asked for their views on an expanded role for Pharmac, which was a recommendation from the Ministerial Review Group last year.
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The Government has expanded eligibility for its voluntary bonding scheme for health graduates working in hard to staff areas and specialties.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced that Mr Rea Wikaira is the new chair of the Alcohol Advisory Council (ALAC), and there are two new board members.
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Seven of the ten new National Health Board (NHB) members announced today are doctors and nurses says Health Minister Tony Ryall.
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From tomorrow the public will see how their DHBs are performing.
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The Government has today announced new appointments to four District Health Boards as part of its plan to strengthen DHB collaboration and add financial expertise.
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Next winter's seasonal influenza vaccine will contain the pandemic (swine flu) strain and be free to extra groups who are at particular risk from swine flu.
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DHBs' performance against the Government's new health targets are to be published in table form in local newspapers from later this month.
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The Government has announced today that it will continue the Fruit in Schools programme, but is cutting the administration component.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall today announced a major drive for better value for money in health.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced a record increase in elective surgery for the financial year just ended.
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"We are a small population spread across a large distance and we need to use our few resources wisely" says Health Minister Tony Ryall.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall has released the report of the Ministerial Review Group, set up to recommend how New Zealand might improve the quality and performance of the public health system.
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Extra supply of vaccine has been bought by the Ministry of Health as one of the measures to combat the current measles outbreak.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall today announced a new national health workforce training board to unify workforce planning in New Zealand.
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New Zealand's junior doctor workforce is characterised by long standing dissatisfaction, industrial conflict and many poor training experiences according to the Resident Medical Officer (RMO) Commission Report released by Health Minister Tony Ryall today.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall and Associate Health Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman today announced the new plan for more inpatient and residential eating disorder services for people in the top half of the North Island.
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WAIKATO — Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced that Waikato DHB has signed a $118 million construction contract with Hawkins Construction Ltd to build the new Waikato Clinical Centre.
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The country's leading heart surgeons have formed the National Cardiac Clinical Network to lead much needed reform of New Zealand's cardiac surgical services.
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The Government has agreed in principle to offer frontline health staff and emergency personnel vaccination against Swine Flu, the new pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus.
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AUCKLAND — The Government has provided up to five million dollars extra to enable Auckland District Health Board to speed up dealing with an unacceptable number of people on its cardiac surgery waiting list.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall has confirmed he has told DHBs to pick up their act delivering the B4 Schools Check programme.
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In response to local body concerns, Health Minister Tony Ryall and Local Government Minister Rodney Hide have announced that the Government has delayed requirements for communities to meet new drinking water legislation by three years.
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Announcing the first results of the government's voluntary bonding scheme today, Health Minister Tony Ryall said the scheme had been very popular.
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The government has taken more precautionary steps with new regulations to help manage an outbreak of Non Seasonal Influenza, such as Influenza A (H1N1) swine flu.
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100 new paramedics will be added to frontline emergency services, with the government confirming a $28 million investment over four years for the initiative.
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AUCKLAND — Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced the appointment of Dr Lester Levy as the new Chair of the Waitemata District Health Board.
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The government has announced a panel to recommend how to improve access to high-cost, highly specialised medicines in New Zealand.
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LOWER HUTT — Health Minister Tony Ryall has paid tribute to New Zealand's hospice staff and volunteers during a visit to Te Omanga Hospice in Lower Hutt this morning, to celebrate the extra $15 million for hospices announced in yesterday's Budget.
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New Zealand is closely monitoring the spread of the swine flu around the world, including increasing cases in Australia where some schools have been closed.
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State Services Minister Tony Ryall has announced a redeployment option to help match State servants who are made redundant with other jobs in the State Services.
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WAIKATO — Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced the appointment of Graeme Milne as the new chair of the Waikato District Health Board.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The Health and Disability Commissioner's findings into quality of care provided to patients by North Shore Hospital confirm widespread community concern.
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Ten positive influenza results from testing carried out on 13 Rangitoto College students who returned from Mexico yesterday morning have been confirmed by Health Minister Tony Ryall this evening.
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State Services Minister Tony Ryall has announced the appointment of Mr John Ombler to the position of Deputy State Services Commissioner at the State Services Commission.
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The Ministers of Health and Finance have approved $36 million to improve North Shore Hospital's emergency department.
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The Health Minister, Tony Ryall has announced an increase in the mileage allowance that patients can claim under the National Travel Assistance (NTA) policy - the first increase in 20 years.
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Front line nursing staff will get more say in the regulation of their profession, Health Minister Tony Ryall announced today.
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The new Health Minister, Tony Ryall has released the final two briefings he received as incoming Minister.
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AUCKLAND — Health Minister Tony Ryall today thanked Waitemata District Health Board Chair Kay McKelvie for her long service to the DHB.
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Health Minister Tony Ryall has welcomed the Prime Minister's confirmation that a full 12 month course of the breast cancer drug Herceptin is now available.
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National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says the Labour Government's legacy of waste in the health sector has been laid bare with figures showing nearly $1 million worth of antibiotics have been poured down the drain.
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National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says the Health Minister is again in full damage control as doctors at yet another hospital warn patients are being put at risk because of interfering bureaucrats and a growing workforce crisis.
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National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says the revelation that waiting times for heart-artery surgery in Auckland have more than doubled is a further symptom of the workforce crisis at hospitals up and down the country.
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Patients will continue to suffer while the Minister of Health sits in the Beehive dithering over what to do about recurring junior doctors' strikes, says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall.
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The thousands of patients missing treatment through this week's junior doctor strike can blame the Health Minister for their cancelled operations and specialist appointments, says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall.
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National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says the looming junior doctors strike is expected to force the cancellation of hundreds of operations and thousands of specialist appointments at hospitals around the country.
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National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says David Cunliffe has opened himself up to accusations of political theft, after blatantly copying parts of National's Health Discussion Document and claiming them as his own.
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National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall is amazed that David Cunliffe issued a media statement with starkly false figures.
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Fewer Kiwis are getting to see a hospital specialist despite billions of dollars of extra health spending, says National's Health spokesman, Tony Ryall.
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National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says Labour has allowed a 'frightening' health workforce crisis to develop despite building up an army of bureaucrats, who've produced at least 43 reports on the subject since 2000.
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National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says the country is heading into a winter of discontent over public health services as Labour's stewardship is found lacking.
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AUCKLAND — The Auckland hospitals crisis is the result of Labour's failure to plan for the future.
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A spirited exchange during Question Time between National Party Health Spokesman Tony Ryall and the Minister of Health, David Cunliffe, over allegations of irregularities in the conduct of financial affairs by certain members of the Hawkes Bay DHB.
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The Labour Government's failure to deal with growing health workforce shortages is directly to blame for what is looming as a crisis of desperate proportions in public hospitals this winter, says National's Health spokesman, Tony Ryall.
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HAWKE'S BAY — National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says David Cunliffe must ask the Auditor-General to step in and investigate the alleged conflict of interest case at Hawke’s Bay District Health Board.
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Health Minister David Cunliffe continues to flounder around and is ignoring the risks to patients of the growing chaos in our hospitals, says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall.
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HAWKE'S BAY — National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says Health Minister David Cunliffe set up the Hawke's Bay District Health Board to fail.
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WHANGANUI — "There is every risk that what happened to Whanganui women could be repeated at other regional hospitals," warns National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall.
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AUCKLAND — "Only a day after some of the health sector's most serious mistakes were revealed, mental health services at the Auckland District Health Board have been slated following a series of deaths, including suicides," says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall.
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National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says the report on serious 'sentinel' errors in our public hospitals is the tip of an iceberg.
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National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall is appalled that Labour is putting media management ahead of patient safety as it holds back a damning report detailing a series of major failures at the country's public hospitals.
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The waiting list for heart patients at Wellington Hospital has more than trebled since Labour came to office, says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The news that there will be an inquiry into the care of four patients at North Shore hospital last winter is welcomed by National's Health spokesman, Tony Ryall.
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National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says David Cunliffe should fast-track his approval for a new, long-delayed linear accelerator in the capital.
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With hospitals throughout the country facing critical staff shortages, Rotorua Hospital is the latest to admit services are suffering due to a desperate shortage of junior doctors, says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall.
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"David Cunliffe has provided more evidence that he's auditioning for a role in a new series of 'Yes Minister'," says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall, commenting on another classic "Cunliffean" moment.
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