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Prime Minister in waiting Christopher Luxon today held a press conference at Parliament with coalition partners David Seymour, leader of the Act Party, and Winston Peters, leader of New Zealand First, to announce details of the coalition agreements that will underpin the country's 54th Parliament.
Mr Luxon noted it was the first time representatives of three parties would sit around the Cabinet table. It is also the first time the country will have deputy prime ministers on rotation - Mr Peters holds the postion for the first 18 months and David Seymour for the second 18-month stretch.
The following provides the list of ministers inside and outside of Cabinet. Northland specialist GP Shane Reti has been named minister of health and minister for Pacific People.
This is the agreement reached between National and the Act Party, and includes details of the new regulation ministry, and agreements on Te Aka Whai Ora and the Therapeutic Products Act 2023.
This is the agreement reached between National and New Zealand First and includes a regional infrastructure fund and its health priorities, among them the use of nurse practitioners and abolishing Te Aka Whai Ora.
In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
Why recognising the signs of dehydration is important...
