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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

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

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 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

Maternal pertussis vaccination rates are suboptimal in New Zealand but a recent study by Auckland, Canterbury and Waikato researchers has found community pharmacies may be effective at lifting uptake

Four hundred hospital pharmacy staff will be joining 10,000 other allied health workers and going on strike on 16 May

Pharmacy pioneer Linda Bryant says being recognised in the New Zealand Order of Merit was very relaxed and special, despite the pomp and ceremony

Unichem Pakuranga Pharmacy owner Vicky Chan speaks to Jonathan Chilton-Towle about juggling work and parenting while managing a busy pharmacy in east Auckland