Health Funding

Some general practices have already increased patient fees by 7 to 16 per cent from 1 July due to the anticipated 4 per cent capitation increase falling far short of covering cost pressures  

Pharmacy sector trailblazer Natalie Gauld has raised over $20,000 for Motor Neurone Disease New Zealand

The reduction in funding for the pharmacy COVID-19 antivirals service will undermine community pharmacies’ ability to provide essential health services, writes Bay of Plenty Community Pharmacy Group president Stuart MacDonald 

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon contemplated “working outside the Pharmac system” to implement the National Party’s election promise to fund 13 cancer treatments that were available in Australia, but not New Zealand

THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH will axe 123 jobs as part of its latest round of cost-cutting.

Health economist Peter Huskinson analyses the Budget’s real-terms health spend per person and how this compares to previous years 

The National Annual Agreement Review meeting scheduled for yesterday was postponed for a second time because Te Whatu Ora is still not ready to make a funding uplift offer to pharmacy representatives

General practice has been offered a 4 per cent funding uplift by Health NZ Te Whatu Ora in their annual contract talks. Is this a sign of what is coming for the pharmacy sector at the upcoming National Annual Agreement Review (NAAR) meeting on Monday?

Kaupapa Māori healthcare providers are facing wide-ranging funding cuts on 30 June, following the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora

The rapid-response home-visiting team of Auckland outreach vaccination service, Uri Ririki Child Health Connection Centre, will be disestablished at the end of this month