Associate Health Minister David Seymour has today welcomed the publication of Pharmac’s Consumer Engagement Workshop Report.
The government has announced plans to lower the age for free bowel cancer screening for all New Zealanders by "redirecting" money previously set aside to lower the age for Māori and Pacific people.
The body representing New Zealand natural product manufacturers says the lack of modern regulation for the sector means New Zealand companies continue to struggle to compete on the world stage.
The Government has recently announced its plan to modernise the regulation of medicines and medical devices by replacing the Medicines Act 1981 with a new Medical Products Bill (Bill). It has also decided that natural health products would be regulated under a standalone bill, yet to be developed.
New Zealand is prescribing up to seven times more puberty blockers to young transgender patients than other similar countries, new analysis shows.
Details of how and when Plunket nurses will step into providing childhood immunisations are still being finalised, say Plunket and Te Whatu Ora leaders.
Thousands of New Zealanders are failing to get proper screening for bowel cancer.
Pharmac is proposing to widen access to a medicine used in the treatment of chronic heart failure.
Ian Powell formed his ideas of pathologists from watching too many crime dramas involving forensic pathologists. His favourite was CSI's Doc Robbins.
Hospital-based MRI and nuclear medicine technologists have stopped work for four days from 6am Friday morning.
HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS
EQUITY
Exploring the impacts of the health system on minorities within the population, notably including Māori, Pacifica, Asians and LGBTQI.
DRUGS, DEVICE AND DIAGNOSTICS
PUBLIC HEALTH
DIGITAL HEALTH
TE TIRITI