You’ve probably seen more than one COVID-19 update recently, so we’ll keep this one brief. We intend to remain open and operating as normal, for as long as we can, and have taken several proactive steps to ensure our service to our clients remains uninterrupted. We have systems in place to ensure that our Advisers…
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I don’t blame the economists for this, they are paid to predict the next quarter, not the next 20 years. And they tend to think of KiwiSaver money as just another pool of investment savings. But it’s not. Every dollar of KiwiSaver savings invested in our economy is probably more valuable than any other. Why?…
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An Auckland bodybuilder who thought she was too fit and healthy to get sick is warning women, especially Pasifika women, to pay attention to their health after she faced cancer this year. Miriam Fuimaono, 40, describes herself as a gym enthusiast, working out daily without fail – sometimes twice a day – for the past…
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Tamara Milne was 37 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with breast cancer during the Covid-19 lockdown. The 33-year-old, who works at Christchurch Hospital as a radiographer, was in the shower when she found a lump over Easter weekend while New Zealand was in alert level 4. “I’ve scanned countless women with breast cancer, so…
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With a supportive wife, five daughters and eight grandchildren, Tony Sullivan has something to fight for. But extending his life in the battle with bowel cancer will cost his family tens of thousands of dollars. In 2018, Sullivan, now 54, was diagnosed with stage three cancer. He was told the cancer had stopped spreading but…
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A battle with cancer that lasted almost a decade has reached an end for Auckland radio personality Michael Kooge. The 36-year-old ex-newsreader on The Edge died today after being moved to hospice in mid July. “It’s all pretty unlucky, if I had medical insurance when I was in my early 20s, before I got sick, I would be able to get…
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Many investors caught up in the great $1.4 billion KiwiSaver sell-off in March will never switch back to a growth fund. An exodus of panicked KiwiSavers switched from share-heavy growth funds into cash and conservative funds in March as global sharemarkets plunged, and Milford’s head of KiwiSaver Murray Harris said: “Many of these members will…
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A woman was told over the phone during coronavirus lockdown she could have just two years left to live. Mandy Grantley, from Auckland’s Avondale, was diagnosed with bowel cancer on the day of her mother’s funeral in 2018. She had chemotherapy and went into remission, but in April, the cancer returned. Read the full article here
It could take years to get through a backlog of elective surgery patients caused by Covid-19 restrictions, say specialists. Senior doctors warn there aren’t enough specialists to increase capacity and many work in both the public and private sectors. Read the full article here
Government funding boost for Pharmac announced, but it doesn’t go far enough for some cancer sufferers. The Government has boosted Pharmac’s funding by $160 million over the next four years to ensure Kiwis can keep getting medicine when global supply chains have been disrupted by the pandemic. Read the full article here…
Pharmac’s decision to backtrack on funding Keytruda is a major blow for equality in New Zealand’s health system, a leading oncologist says. Lung cancer is the most fatal cancer in New Zealand, taking about 1800 lives a year, but immunotherapy drugs like Keytruda have been proving effective. Medical oncologist Laird Cameron said while they were…
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