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Green Cross Health has appointed long-serving Carter Holt Harvey executive Rachael Newfield to take on a newly created primary care role within the company

Erectile dysfunction meds are the most common illicit medicines seized at New Zealand’s border followed by antibiotics and insomnia medicines

Nearly three-quarters of GPs responding to the latest New Zealand Doctor/IQVIA fax poll feel they had been ill-prepared for running a business

Pharmacists interested in putting their hand up for the Pharmacy Council board have four days left to apply, after “human error” at the Ministry of Health meant the positions were not as widely advertised as possible

A self-prescribing GP who suffered a period of zopiclone addiction will continue to practise, albeit with conditions  

An Auckland GP appeared before a Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal to admit charges of professional misconduct for self-treating and self-prescribing potentially addictive and/or psychotropic drugs

ACC’s financial chickens are coming home to roost

General practices and PHOs are pushing ahead fast in a bid to meet the 1 December deadline to implement the Government’s sweeping changes to primary care funding

A "rough sleeper" has admitted a raft of charges that culminated in death threats and the assault of a central Christchurch pharmacy worker

An Auckland pharmaceutical company is looking to appeal a ruling by the Federal Court of Australia that it produced false and misleading advertising