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Medsafe has approved the first electronic controlled-drugs register for use in New Zealand pharmacies, associate health minister David Seymour announced today

Government officials are offering to advise health minister Simeon Brown on boosting user-pays and insurance funding of the health system  

Jody Hopkinson speaks to pharmacist prescriber Andrew McKean about the work he does in mental health

Imagine a world where bacteria, typically feared for causing disease, are turned into powerful weapons against cancer

PSNZ gold-medal winner David Woods wants to share his award with all the fantastic people he has worked with throughout his career

Whether it’s frantically calling around for a locum while your wife is giving birth, delivering meds at midnight with your children asleep in the back of the car, or bringing your nanny to work so you can keep your business afloat while breastfeeding – how are parents who are active pharmacists, doing? And what could the sector do better to support them? Jody Hopkinson reports

Health minister Simeon Brown, in a speech to yesterday’s NZ Infrastructure Investment Summit, told delegates that Budget 2024 had delivered a $16.68 billion funding uplift over three years

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is considering how it can continue funding comprehensive primary care teams, with health minister Simeon Brown saying practices can use their recent capitation funding boost to keep the teams going after allocated funding expires in June

Two Kiwi pharmacists are fronting an ad campaign encouraging foreign pharmacists to work in Nova Scotia. Jody Hopkinson spoke to one of them, Sabrena Fu, about practising pharmacy in Canada

A review of job cuts within the Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora data and digital team is underway to ensure there is no impact on frontline healthcare, according to health minister Simeon Brown