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A draft service agreement for a new digital health service suggests Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora values telehealth providers more than GPs, says GenPro chair Angus Chambers

A High Court challenge has unsuccessfully argued that the Medical Council’s 2021 guidance statement on the COVID-19 vaccine and anti-vax claims was unlawful

Pharmacists could soon be able to supply allopurinol without a prescription

A dual-trained paramedic-doctor is calling for a new leadership model in healthcare that brings professions together rather than keeping them in separate lanes 

Clinicians have until 11.59pm tonight to respond to a Ministry of Health survey written off as an “embarrassingly poor piece of work”, a “political attack on cultural safety” and “plain racist”

The Health Quality and Safety Commission has lost one-fifth of its positions in its government-ordered restructuring to save money

Spending two weeks on a science outreach trip to Samoa and talking to high-school students about medicines in 28-degree heat and 95 per cent humidity, “put things in perspective”, says University of Otago School of Pharmacy lecturer, associate professor Greg Walker. 

An independent review has found Pharmac's current approach is not fit for purpose and has called for an overhaul of both strategy and culture.

New funding in Budget 2025 will be almost half of what was previously planned, finance minister Nicola Willis told a business audience today