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Vitaco Health’s hard work to revive its effervescent tablet brand paid off when it walked away with Natural Health Product NZ’s Supreme Award last week

Budget 2024: The Government’s $3.1 billion increase in Vote Health in Budget 2024 obscures the fact that most of it has already been earmarked for settling Holidays Act claims, according to University of Auckland professor of health policy Tim Tenbensel

Budget 2024: The Government’s decision to axe free prescriptions in Budget 2024 rankles academic and specialist GP Ben Gray.

Budget 2024: Te Awamutu pharmacy owner Gemma Perry thinks every pharmacist in New Zealand will be feeling “pretty gutted” to hear the Government is bringing back the $5 Prescription fee on 1 July

Budget 2024: Aside from a glaring hole where new funding for Pacific providers should be, there are no surprises in the Vote Health section of the 2024 Budget, says public health academic Sir Collin Tukuitonga

The return of the $5 prescription fee for most people is the main change for New Zealand’s health system in Budget 2024

Pharmacists say they are seeing an increase in drug seeking since pseudoephedrine-containing medicines returned to their shelves and are calling for a national register to record sales of the products

Budget 2024 will be delivered on 30 May by finance minister Nicola Willis. With some help from reporter Martin Johnston, New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain provides an observers’ guide on what to look for amid the mass of numbers if you want to find out how health has fared

Te Whatu Ora is calling on health professionals to be alert as the number of pertussis (whooping cough) cases increases

A Motueka pharmacy may have been the first in the country to get burgled for pseudoephedrine in 13 years, less than a week after the product became available again