Health Funding

The Government is ratcheting up investment in mental health and addiction and anticipating GPs playing a big role in its new “more access and choice” approach 

Analysts find it hard to see how the Government can shrink DHB deficits while also keeping health services up with growing acute needs 

Pharmacists around New Zealand are banding together to access funding under the new pharmacy services contract

A “shot across the bows” of the DHBs from the Ministry of Health could mean short-term cutbacks in primary care, healthcare researchers say

General practices and PHOs are pushing ahead fast in a bid to meet the 1 December deadline to implement the Government’s sweeping changes to primary care funding

A new professional advisory payment included in the pharmacy services contract is a move towards addressing equity issues for Māori and Pasifika patients, a DHB pharmacy leader says

Pharmacists around the country seem to mostly be supportive of the revamped pharmacy services contract presented to them last week

The Pharmacy Council is standing by its decision to hike fees in the face of a petition calling for a ministerial review of the organisation for exceeding its remit

In a blow for Otago and South­land, health minister David Clark says he has no immediate plan to review the contentious pop­ulation-based funding formula often blamed for the Southern DHB’s deficit woes

The mood around the new pharmacy services contract appears to have lightened following the first joint workshop between DHB officials and sector representatives since consultation closed.