Health Funding

Health players are mulling yesterday’s announcement by Pharmac on its use of new Government funding 

South Auckland pharmacist Kathy Maxwell is running for the DHB to remind the board primary care exists, and it's more than just GPs

There's a new variation to the ICPSA, which would mean additional funds - but only if pharmacies want it

The range of publicly funded condoms available in New Zealand looks set to expand to include coloured and flavoured sheaths, but none will be black

"Another day older and deeper in debt” is a song lyric about Kentucky coal mining that could be applied to New Zealand’s DHBs

Pharmac has pulled the plug on eight inactive applications for public funding of medicines as part of its new policy of increased transparency on decision making

It is a "serious deficiency” that pharmacists are deprived of the type of funding provided to other health practitioners, say Australian researchers

Registered pharmacist and PhD student Yasmin Abdul Aziz has won an award for a research poster at an overseas conference

The Government is ratcheting up investment in mental health and addiction and anticipating GPs playing a big role in its new “more access and choice” approach 

Analysts find it hard to see how the Government can shrink DHB deficits while also keeping health services up with growing acute needs