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More than 80 per cent of New Zealand women being tested have opted for a world-leading self-test for cervical screening since it became available a year ago

A Crown Response Office is being established within the Public Service Commission to drive the Government’s response to the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care

The stress within New Zealand’s health system is placing unsustainable pressure on our pharmacy sector and impacting negatively on patient care according to a workforce survey conducted by the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand (PSNZ)

GPNZ wholeheartedly endorses the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand’s (PSNZ) call for more funding and professional support across all parts of our health system, on the back of its latest workforce survey

The chronic shortage of general practice doctors will only get worse until the government steps in to fix the main problem – a lack of funding for primary healthcare

Unfocused, wide ranging voluntary redundancies at Te Whatu Ora will further destabilise public health to meet Government imposed spending cuts, the PSA says.

Pharmac is consulting on plans to widen access to empagliflozin, a medicine used in the treatment of chronic heart failure that would benefit more than 18,000 people in the first year of funding

The crisis in Tairāwhiti primary healthcare is another warning of the looming collapse of primary healthcare in New Zealand unless drastic action is taken, says Dr Angus Chambers, Chair of the General Practice Owners Association (GenPro)

Demand for vaping education for 10 to 12-year-olds has quadrupled in the past year