Ministry of Health

Pharmacy sector leaders are disappointed most of the $18 million intended for community pharmacy during COVID-19 last year was returned to the Crown in June.

Pop-up hepatitis C testing clinics are being set up across Aotearoa New Zealand on World Hepatitis Day this Wednesday to make it quick and easy for at risk Kiwis to get tested for the virus

Health minister Andrew Little has not displayed any great concern over the failure of Canterbury DHB’s 2020/21 annual plan to receive his approval 

The University of Otago School of Pharmacy has hit a wall after years of pushing to get its vaccinator-training programme for pharmacy students authorised by the Ministry of Health

The leaders presiding over the reform of the New Zealand health system say pharmacy will play an important part in the new set-up but to date, details on what this might look like are scant

Despite a strong start to this year's influenza vaccination programme and a record-breaking number of doses available, so far the uptake has been lower compared with last year

The leaders presiding over the reform of the New Zealand health system say pharmacy will play an important part in the new set-up but to date, details on what this might look like are scant

Today, prime minister Jacinda Ardern and director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield unveiled plans to vaccinate three and a half million more New Zealanders against COVID-19 by October 

The Ministry of Health has confirmed there is sufficient supply of the Pfizer vaccine for district health boards to deliver more than half a million vaccinations as planned over the next five weeks

A glimpse back in time to horse-drawn chocolate deliveries discovered at New Dunedin Hospital site