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The following are articles produced by others, showing the importance of the NHI, how the NHI is used by health and disability support services, and what other people think about the NHI. (The articles are given here as PDF files.)

• Your (NHI) number’s up! [PDF, 504 kB] (from Our Health, Our District, the MidCentral DHB Newsletter, September 2003)
• Assigning an NHI number to a foetus [PDF, 72 kB] (from Blood Issues, the New Zealand Blood Services Newsletter, No. 9, January 2004)
• Enrolling with a Primary Health Organisation: Answering Your Questions [PDF, 116 kB] (leaflet issued by the Ministry of Health, September 2002)

The NHI is also plays an important role in the National Immunisation Register, a computerised information system that has been developed to hold immunisation details of New Zealand children.

The following are news stories about the NHI:

• Researchers see value in unique identifier
• Pharmacies see advantage in wider NHI use
• NHI system expanded, made more flexible
• NHI Upgrade Project launched
• NHI improves patient safety
• NHI valuable in community health
• NHI number critical for immunisation programme