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Health minister Andrew Little and associate health minister Peeni Henare are defending the amount spent on Māori health and Pharmac in Budget 2022

The following documents relate to spending outlined in Budget 2022, the fifth Budget of finance minister Grant Robertson (Labour). Full Budget details can be found on the Treasury website

Finance minister Grant Robertson previously promised the focus of Budget 2022 would be health and today he delivered the largest-ever jump in health spending

An Auckland-based hospital pharmacist who went on strike with 10,000 other allied health workers on Monday says pay rates are so low there is almost no reason for staff to keep working

Health minister Andrew Little has delivered a double dose of criticism of primary healthcare and defended his call for new business models 

The Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand has launched a suite of changes to the rules governing Pharmacy Accuracy Checking Technicians that it hopes will remove barriers to techs moving into those roles

More than 40 cases of flu have been confirmed in the Southern region as Pharmac also moves on a treatment for respiratory syncytial virus 

More than 10,000 allied health workers, including 400 pharmacy staff, are striking today after a last-minute pay offer from DHBs was rejected on Friday afternoon

Māori, Asian and Pacific peoples are far less likely to be prescribed antidepressants than New Zealand Europeans

After a four-year hiatus, Medicines New Zealand has relaunched its annual Value of Medicines award, this time adding a new award for young scientists worth $30,000