Te Whatu Ora – Health NZ

Four chief delivery officers are being sought by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora – and the roles have nothing to do with courier packages

Unannounced audits are (mostly) gone and will not be coming back, reports Jonathan Chilton-Towle

HEALTH NEW ZEALAND Te Whatu Ora has changed its tune on a proposal that would remove harm reduction from the remit of pharmacies offering needle exchange services.

PSNZ IS EXPLORING WAYS to keep three training courses free after losing funding from Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora.

Hard on the heels of news of a “physical contact” complaint against one top executive seconded to Te Whatu Ora, Newsroom has learnt another senior adviser was censured for failings as an auditor

Unannounced audits of pharmacies have been permanently cancelled, other than in exceptional circumstances

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora has changed its tune on a proposal that would remove harm reduction from the remit of pharmacies offering needle exchange services

A new Te Whatu Ora report spells out some of the organisation’s key priorities in the South Island for 2025 

The Pharmacy Guild is strongly opposed to a redesign of the needle exchange programme that will take wraparound harm reduction services out of the hands of pharmacies from July onwards

A taskforce has been established to review and potentially replace the health system reset plan put forward by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora commissioner Lester Levy