Health Policy

Dear Santa...we asked pharmacists from across Aotearoa to share with Pharmacy Today readers their three top hopes and dreams for the future. Not surprisingly, many fervently hoped the contentious copayment issue would be consigned to the dustbin, along with COVID which made for a tough 2021

More than 50 submissions about local primary care initiatives have been received by the Health and Disability Review Transition Unit as it works towards selecting locality prototypes for 2022

Health minister Andrew Little's once-in-a-generation announcement on health has the pharmacy sector buzzing, with sector leaders optimistic it will bring much-needed change. The Pharmacy Today team reports

DHBs will disappear and primary and community care will be organised in locality networks under New Zealand’s biggest structural health changes in a generation, unveiled by health minister Andrew Little today

DHBs will disappear and primary and community care will be organised in locality networks under New Zealand’s biggest structural health changes in a generation, unveiled by health minister Andrew Little today

The head of the Government’s health reform transition unit has gone visiting in the health sector to explain his group’s role and purpose  

Labour’s massive win in the general election last month seems unlikely to translate to the massive change the pharmacy sector has been clamouring for

Labour’s landslide victory in the general election on Saturday was mighty impressive, but the impact on the health sector is likely to be muted, writes The Health Media managing editor Barbara Fountain

I’m someone who loves voting, and being part of a political process, but who hates the pre-election period, writes Gabrielle Baker (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kuri), a health policy expert 

The National Party says it will set aside $10 million to support expanding the number of services offered by pharmacies if it wins the upcoming general election