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Knowledge itself is power

Knowledge Hub

On this page, we will continue to add links to a wide range of information and resources that may be helpful or of interest to you as a health consumer or health professional.

These include practical tools to help you navigate the health system, as well as patient safety information, policy and research materials, lived experience insights, articles, and key background documents that help explain how the health system works, how it is evolving, and how it affects people.

  • New Zealand’s Health Data is Incomplete and Comparison with Other Nations is Impossible

  • Insufficient Surgical Expertise Highlights Risk in Lifting Mesh Suspension in NZ

  • The Health and Disability Commissioner review of the HDC Act and the Code of Rights

  • Questions to ask your doctor

  • Reporting adverse events and reactions to medicines

  • Your rights and making a complaint

  • Timeline of Govt response to Surgical Mesh issue in New Zealand

  • Practical Information on Surgical Mesh
  • Video of Prof Carl Elliott's talk on the 5th of August 2024, The Occasional Human Sacrifice

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