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Public submissions on health policy

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Public submissions on health policy

From the 1970s successive governments reformed the health system. The government's 1974 White Paper proposed a single health system with combined primary and secondary health services. These piled-up papers, propped up by Department of Health officer Margaret Jensen, are the public submissions on the White Paper.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1975/2725

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Michael Belgrave, Primary health care – Reforming the system, 1970s–21st century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/31532/public-submissions-on-health-policy (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Michael Belgrave, published 21 April 2011.