Graduate pharmacists starting work in rural areas have two weeks left to apply for bonding payments worth nearly $20,000 if they continue to work in those areas for the first three to five years of their career.
An error by Te Whatu Ora in calculating pharmacy payments left 186 pharmacies out of pocket by a combined total of $775,000 and all other pharmacies were overpaid by the same amount.
Cutting one in four staff at the Ministry of Health will potentially be “punishing” for remaining staff and result in valuable skills being lost, a health systems academic says