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A spike in the number of preschoolers being hospitalised for illnesses that should have been picked up earlier is worrying, an Auckland GP says

Outreach vaccinators Georgina Tucker and Chris Leung spend a lot of their days vaccinating Auckland babies and toddlers in their homes as part of the Rapid Response Home Visiting Team for the Uri Ririki- Child Health Connection Centre. They tell Paulette Crowley why their job is such a privilege

AFT Pharmaceuticals has been found by the High Court at Auckland to have breached its fiduciary duty to PBL Solutions over the development of the drug Pascomer, although the court also found no dishonest conduct on the part of AFT

The RNZCGP has established a board and management working group to investigate the college’s high staff turnover

The chief executive of a company that helps organisations transform their culture says Pharmac can change, but it won’t come easily

A pharmacy advisory group that was dumped because of COVID-19 is being revived and sector representatives have until Tuesday to nominate the people who will decide on its terms of reference

Te Whatu Ora has selected the frontline health workers to lead its first four national clinical networks.

National, ACT and New Zealand First all have health policies they have been hawking on the hustings. Once coalition talks start, some of those policies will make it through the horse-trading, some will fall prey to political expediency. Stephen Forbes examines the policies and promises on offer

The Hauora Māori Advisory Committee may provide advice on the future of Te Aka Whai Ora regardless of whether they are invited to do so by the incoming minister of health

A pharmacy group that fought for free prescriptions has put out two surveys about the impacts of the change, and hopes incoming MPs will see the value of it and decide not to bring back the charges.