Wellington, March 17 NZPA - Government directives to speed up spending cuts are presenting challenges which the MidCentral District Health Board is finding difficult to achieve, a Parliamentary health select committee heard today.

Wellington, March 17 NZPA - One hundred and thirty jobs are proposed to be cut at the Health Ministry, Director-General of Health Stephen McKernan said today.

Wellington, March 17 NZPA - Health Ministry staff expect to be told of job cuts today. In October, Health Minister Tony Ryall said up to 500 jobs would go across the ministry and district health boards (DHBs).

Wellington, March 10 NZPA - The outgoing Director-General of Health, Stephen McKernan, says he is not being pushed from his job.

Wellington, Oct 28 NZPA - Former Treasury secretary Murray Horn has been appointed chairman of the advisory board for the new National Health Board (NHB), Health Minister Tony Ryall announced today.

By Kate Chapman of NZPA Wellington, Oct 21 NZPA - Up to 500 jobs will be lost as a result of the creation of a National Health Board (NHB), Health Minister Tony Ryall said today. Cabinet agreed the NHB would be established within the Ministry of Health.

By Kate Chapman of NZPA Wellington, Oct 21 NZPA - Up to 500 jobs will be lost as a result of the creation of a National Health Board (NHB), Health Minister Tony Ryall said today.

Wellington, Oct 21 NZPA - The Government will today announce a new agency to look at moving back office functions of the country's 21 district health boards into a separate body.

Wellington, Sept 29 NZPA - The Labour Party is suspicious about the Government's plans for the public health service and says creating a new "super bureaucracy" in the form of a National Health Board (NHB) won't work.

Wellington, Sept 29 NZPA - The District Health Boards of New Zealand (DHBNZ) support the establishment of a National Health Board (NHB) and wanted its role to be expanded from that recommended in the review of the health system.