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Budget Policy Statement 2024
The full submission can be read here Submission to: Finance and Expenditure CommitteeSubject: Budget Policy Statement 2024From: New Zealanders for Health Research (NZHR)1Date: 22nd April 2024RecommendationsNew Zealanders for Health Research (NZHR) recommends that BPS 2024:
Read MoreHealth Research Save Lives! June 2023
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Read MoreBudget 2023: Government Health Research Investment Underwhelms
Budget 2023: Government Health Research Investment Underwhelming – again media release 22nd May 2023 “New Zealanders have once again been let down by Budget 2023’s underwhelming support for health research” New Zealanders for Health Research (NZHR) Chief Executive Chris Higgins said today. “Health research and innovation is the single most important way in which we…
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Read MoreTherapeutic Products Bill
Following our written submission to Parliament’s Health Committee we have followed up with an oral submission where we’ve referenced submissions from NZHR members Douglas Pharmaceuticals, Malaghan Institute and MSD (Merck) in order to amplify both their voices and our own. The text of the oral submission can be read here
Read MoreNZHR submission on the Therapeutic Products Bill
NZHR has made a submission on the Therapeutic Products Bill. Because products used in clinical trials are yet to be confirmed or otherwise as being therapeutic they need to be unambiguously exempted from many of the Bill’s provisions. It is also important that the new legislation does not impose additional burdens on the carrying out…
Read MoreNZHR’s oral submission on the 2023 Budget Policy Statement
NZHR’s oral submission on the 2023 Budget Policy Statement, presented to Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee on 13th February, can be read here.
Read MoreNZHR 2023 Budget Policy Statement submission
NZHR has made a submission to Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee recommending that the 2023 Budget Policy Statement The full submission can be read here
Read MoreHealth Research Saves Lives! December 2022
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Read MoreThe (New) New Zealand System – Research and Clinical Trials
On 29th November 2022 at NZHR’s “health research at crossroads” workshop Dr Ian Town, Chief Science Advisor, Ministry of Health, presented on the place and role of health research and clinical trials in New Zealand’s reformed health sector. His presentation can be viewed here
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