Your health is important, so is your choice

The New Zealand Health Trust is an independent, charitable trust acting to educate New Zealanders to make informed decisions about their health and wellbeing.

The Trust is committed to ensuring high quality and complete information is available to New Zealanders on issues affecting their health and health choices. The Trust supports and encourages New Zealanders to seek greater knowledge and understanding of the issues so they can take responsibility for their health choices.

As part of it’s overall commitment to educating New Zealanders on issues affecting their health and health choices the Trust has been leading the opposition to the New Zealand Government’s plan to treat natural health products as drugs and give the power to control them to the controversial Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration. The Trust has spent the last 5 years presenting evidence to the New Zealand Parliament on how damaging this proposal would be to the natural health options of New Zealanders.

While work on the long term resolution of this issue continues the Trust seeks to educate New Zealanders and involve them in the process of arriving at a more appropriate way to regulate the industry while maximising the freedom of their health choices.

The Trust remains committed to supporting and promoting education on health and wellbeing within New Zealand. The Trust seeks to give effect to that commitment through involvement with the following:

• Educating New Zealanders on their natural health options;
• Stimulating, co-ordinating and supporting research into the cause, prevention and treatment of various health conditions and disorders.
• Supporting research, education and public involvement in relation to governance issues;
• Commissioning research into health issues and in particular health care products, devices, practices and services within New Zealand.
• Acquiring information in relation to health conditions, afflictions and disease to enable a better understanding of the health needs of the New Zealand community.
• Obtaining information from and sharing information with other organisations.
• Encouraging and providing opportunities for people and organisations within New Zealand to take an active interest in the funding of complimentary health care products, devices, practices and services and general health research for prevention, diagnosis and treatment;
• Informing and educating New Zealanders of the progress of the Trust’s research;
• Working and co-operating with the New Zealand Health Services and existing health care providers in New Zealand;
• Providing registering, monitoring and reporting programmes and processes on health care products, devices, practices and services;
• Assisting with provision of equipment, venues, information sources and materials necessary for the conduct of training programmes and research.
• Holding seminars, tutorials and lectures and to demonstrate the research and to promote the aims and objects of the Trust to New Zealanders. 

Hi, my name is Dave Sloan, the founder of the NZ Health Trust.

NZHT is a charitable Trust set up in 2002 to promote education of good health practises and the health options available to all New Zealanders.
While the Trust supports everyone knowing about all their health options, there is a particular focus on education as to natural health choices.

As part of its work NZHT aims to do the following:
Promote education of good health practises and health options.
Offer scholarships and financial assistance to selected people wishing to undertake training in the natural health area.

Monitor and make submissions on law changes which could affect the ability of ordinary New Zealanders to educate themselves about health options and make the decisions that they feel to be best for them.

Recent work carried out by NZHT

Health conscious New Zealanders are facing a threat to their freedom to choose natural ways and means for taking care of their health. According to an agreement between the governments of New Zealand and Australia, signed in December 2003, Natural Health Products could be classed as drugs and regulated by a joint agency modelled after the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration.

NZHT has been leading the opposition to the joint agency since 2002 presenting evidence to Parliament of how damaging this proposal would be to the natural health options of New Zealanders. NZHT has shown that natural health products can be properly regulated in New Zealand by developing an alternative model of regulation centered around a system of good manufacturing practice (GMP) including controlled claims rules and a web site that will act as a product information center and point of self-regulation.

That site is www.myhealth.co.nz - Click on the logo below to visit www.myhealth.co.nz

For more information on the model proposed by NZHT or the history of this issue please visit the documents section of this website by clinking on the link on the left hand side of your screen.


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