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Health Minister Andrew Little said the new entity would strive to ensure everyone, no matter where they lived, would have access to the same level of healthcare.
But people in more remote parts of the country fear being forgotten and want to see issues they are facing finally be addressed.
Health New Zealand, the new entity set to change Aotearoa s healthcare system, is being cautiously welcomed by people from the top of the country to the south.
Te Hiku Peninsula in the Far North has experienced accessibility issues and many Māori faced cost barriers when it came to health care.
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Northland border workers to receive the Covid vaccine from March
19 Feb, 2021 05:00 PM
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Northlanders working on the border will be the first to receive the vaccine in early March. Photo / Supplied
Northlanders working on the border will be the first to receive the vaccine in early March. Photo / Supplied
Northland s border workers will be the region s first to receive a Covid-19 vaccine in March.
This population, largely made up of Northport workers, will be administered the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by early next month as the national rollout began today in Auckland.
Vaccinations of border workers and managed isolation facility staff would likely start in Wellington on Monday and Christchurch on Wednesday.
06:11 EDT, 22 January 2021
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Many parents are worried for their youngsters education, but thanks to tireless efforts by teachers, they needn t be.
When schools up and down the country closed their doors on January 5 to all except children of critical workers and vulnerable children, parents gave a collective shudder.
After all, having children is challenging enough at the best of times, but when they re at home all day, every day, and you have to supervise their education, it s almost impossible.
Learning in a different setting: Lily Evans, a pupil at Cornerstone Academy, Devon, studies at home
As father-of-two Errol Murray, from Leeds, says: There s a reason that teaching is a paid profession.