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E-cigarette companies, including giants such as British American Tobacco, have actively lobbied governments in New Zealand and Australia to weaken existing vape regulations while preventing the introduction of stricter ones

Te Whatu Ora has been slapped by departing chief ombudsman Peter Boshier, who says the agency must do better and is calling for agency chiefs to face the risk of penalties for persistently flouting the Official Information Act

The Government has revealed the names of the six-member Health Assurance Unit, a panel sitting outside of healthcare and charged with helping the health minister meet his targets

Pharmacists involved in a successful Hawke’s Bay gout treatment programme are extremely disappointed that community liaison officers, the “cornerstones of the programme”, have been made redundant

Funding of $4 million has been earmarked for a new shared digital health record, Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora has confirmed

Questions remain about the new shared digital health record, set to launch in July, with key details – such as what is being proposed and how it is going to be funded – yet to be disclosed

Medsafe has approved the first electronic controlled-drugs register for use in New Zealand pharmacies, associate health minister David Seymour announced today

Government officials are offering to advise health minister Simeon Brown on boosting user-pays and insurance funding of the health system  

Jody Hopkinson speaks to pharmacist prescriber Andrew McKean about the work he does in mental health

Imagine a world where bacteria, typically feared for causing disease, are turned into powerful weapons against cancer