Govt sets up new health innovation fund
$12 million allocated over the next four years.
Tuesday, June 14 2011 || News || BY Unlimited
The government will put $12 million over four years into a new fund to trial health innovations and technologies designed to improve patient care.
Health Minister Tony Ryall says health improvements have long been introduced in silos, but the new fund will be managed by a revamped National Health Committee that will advise the Minister of Health which innovations should be publicly funded, rather than leaving it up to the 20 individual district health boards.
Professor Anne Kolbe was appointed NHC's chair in April and the committee is being reconfigured after a ministerial review.
