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Health minister David Clark wants DHBs to be more open with the ministry and his office, following revelations of rot and decay at Middlemore Hospital

Tension between government and health professionals is a permanent backdrop to health policy and healthcare delivery, writes University of Auckland health policy researcher Tim Tenbensel

NZMA chair Kate Baddock has criticised the Government’s ap­proach to relaxing the law on can­nabis, describing it as “muddled”

Work on a national electronic health record has stalled as the Ministry of Health awaits Cabinet approval for the project to proceed

A new treatment for hepatitis C that can be delivered by GPs took up more funding than any other medicine Pharmac funded in the year to 30 June 2017.

Uncertainty, high staff turnover, negative behaviours, poor relationships, invisible leadership, retreat into “silos” and poorly communicated priorities.

Some of the things we love about summer...

Health minister David Clark has announced this afternoon that director-general of health Chai Chuah has quit 

Auckland woman Denise Astill knows the pain of a mother who finds out too late that the medicine she took while pregnant harmed her child

General practice contributes to global warming by being party to rampant wastage of medicines, Wellington GP Rebecca Randerson says.