Te Whatu Ora – Health NZ

Te Whatu Ora has agreed to fund 205 pharmacy accuracy checking technicians (PACTs) to be trained over two and a half years, starting in November.

Pharmacy sector representatives are disappointed Te Whatu Ora has not budged from the 5 per cent funding increase it put on the table at the start of pharmacy contract talks

The Pharmacy Guild is concerned community pharmacy staff will be lured away by the promise of higher pay at hospitals. 

Special Authority prescriptions are creating a bureaucratic nightmare for pharmacists and causing delays in patients getting their medicine. Jonathan Chilton-Towle investigates

Special Authority prescriptions are creating a bureaucratic nightmare for pharmacists and causing delays in patients getting their medicine. Jonathan Chilton-Towle investigates

From Monday, pharmacies supplying COVID-19 antivirals will be able to claim only for shorter consultations and will not be paid to provide in-home visits

Taranaki Base Hospital and Hāwera Hospital have had to reduce pharmacy services owing to chronic staff shortages reports Natasha Jojoa Burling

TE WHATU ORA will slash 322 full-time back-office jobs in a first wave of redundancies as part of its drive to free up resources for front-line healthcare services.

An independent review of the health reforms’ progress is to start shortly but will not be completed until after the election

Te Whatu Ora wayfinder Danny Wu holds the purse strings for northern region healthcare, commissioning dollars from Ōtāhuhu to Cape Reinga. He talks to Paulette Crowley about how the health reforms are unfolding for pharmacists