Advocacy
Our advocacy efforts focus on making heart and lung health a national priority, driving investment in prevention, early intervention and equitable care. Key areas include medicines and devices access, workforce shortages, clean air, healthy homes, lung screening, vaccines, vaping and smoking action.
Access to medicines and devices
Too many Kiwis are waiting too long (or going without) treatments and diagnostic tools that are already proven to work.
Air pollution
The air we breathe affects our health. We’re calling for clean air to be treated as a public health priority.
Healthcare workforce
Heart disease is New Zealand's biggest killer, yet the workforce needed to treat it is dangerously thin, and in some parts of the country it barely exists at all.
Healthy homes
The air we breathe directly affects our hearts and lungs. We're calling on the Government to treat clean air as the public health priority it is.
Lung cancer screening
Lung cancer is New Zealand's deadliest cancer, yet we have no national screening programme. We're calling on the Government to change that.
Political manifesto
Calling on decision-makers to prioritise heart and lung health through early intervention and equitable care.
Pregnancy and heart disease
Heart disease complicates around 1-4% of pregnancies in Aotearoa, yet specialist cardiac care during pregnancy remains out of reach for many New Zealanders.
Spirometry
Driving national spirometry training, standards and advocacy for earlier diagnosis and better respiratory care.
Vaccinations
Vaccines save lives. But for those with heart and respiratory conditions, gaps in New Zealand's vaccination programme leave our most vulnerable unprotected.
Vaping and smoking
New Zealand was once a world leader on smoke-free policy. But we've lost ground, and our kids are paying the price.