Health Funding

General practices on the front line in the COVID-19 crisis are feeling let down, angry and taken for granted after Cabinet pulled the plug on the second $22 million instalment of lockdown relief funding 

A “one-size-fits-all" approach to pandemic planning adds to injustice, which is increasing the risk for disadvantaged New Zealanders   

Hugh Lopdell, director of Oak Park Chartered Accountants, talks through the Government’s COVID-19 support for pharmacists and other financial issues facing pharmacists

Pharmacies in the inner city and malls, along with urgent pharmacies, are hardest hit by the COVID-19 lockdown, two pharmacy-focused accountants say

Community pharmacies’ bank balances should look a little healthier, as all $15 million of the support package promised to the sector has been promptly paid out 

The Government is preparing a $15 million payment to support pharmacies during the COVID-19 crisis

National Hauora Coalition says more than money needed to protect health of Māori in pandemic 

Pharmacists around the country have revealed exactly how worried they are about the ever-worsening COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey by Pharmacy Today

Bid to delay COVID-19 community transmission as long as possible behind expanded testing plans 

The Government today announced plans to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of young adults against measles, but the Pharmaceutical Society president worries DHBs may not involve pharmacists in the programme