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The road between Wairoa and Napier is now open, but medicines to the Wairoa Pharmacy are still going the long way round

The Government’s announcement that it was scrapping the $5 prescription fee from 1 July caught the pharmacy sector by surprise, but health minister Ayesha Verrall says the policy had been planned for some time

A National government would reinstate the prescription fee for those who can afford to pay it, and target those who can’t, says health spokesperson Shane Reti 

Pharmacists around New Zealand are ecstatic that the $5 prescription fee has been removed in the 2023 Budget 

The following documents relate to spending outlined in Budget 2023, the sixth Budget of finance minister Grant Robertson (Labour). Full Budget details can be found on the Treasury website

Abolishing the $5 prescription charge is the centre piece for the health system in Budget 2023 

Green Cross Health chief operating officer Alison Van Wyk is finishing up on Friday after 13 years with the company

Green Cross Health has more than half of its pharmacies on board with its new medication-management app. Paulette Crowley reports

A substitute for the hormone replacement medication Estradot is available but some pharmacies are having problems getting it

Feedback on the Therapeutic Products Bill was heard by the health select committee last month. Jonathan Chilton-Towle looks at what pharmacists had to say