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Free GP and dental visits, an expansion of the Minor Ailments Scheme, tikanga Māori-led maternity care and the removal of the $5 prescription charge are all on the agenda for a Green Party-led government

More people could have access to funded antiviral treatments for COVID-19 later this year if Pharmac’s new proposal is approved

A new roadside drug-testing regime may see law-abiding citizens with legal prescriptions barred from driving for a period of 12 hours, reports Jody Hopkinson

A list of pay equity claims likely to be scrapped under the Government’s change to the Equal Pay Act 1972 reveals the health sector workers affected

Nearly 100 per cent of those who took part in a first of its kind pharmacy-based programme to supply antenatal anti-D prophylaxis strongly support the initiative

Staff at an Auckland pharmacy are taking precautions after finding out they were visited by a person with measles last week

Pathlab lab workers have settled with the company after voting to accept a 9 per cent pay rise backdated to April last year

Pharmacist Eliza Hood’s life trajectory was literally changed by participating in an interprofessional education programme

The person at the centre of a new measles alert in Auckland is a crew member on a Fullers360 ferry, the company has confirmed

A group of prominent New Zealanders are calling for a new social contract to ensure the country’s public health system is maintained in the face of what they call a move towards greater privatisation