Politics

Claims of under-funding and under-staffing in New Zealand healthcare are ‘fake news’, says health minister Simeon Brown

Pharmacy and the broader health sector are reacting to the news that prime minister Christopher Luxon has replaced health minister Shane Reti after just 15 months in the role, as Jody Hopkinson reports

Plans for the new Dunedin Hospital appear to have veered back towards where they were heading before the Coalition Government last year stymied them 

ACT Party leader David Seymour has proposed giving $6000 to every New Zealander who opts out of the public health system and takes up private health insurance

Prime minister Christopher Luxon has announced the creation of four new Crown research organisations covering bioeconomy, earth sciences, health and forensic science, and advanced technology in his 2025 State of the Nation speech in Auckland today

Pharmacy and the broader health sector is today reacting to the news that prime minister Christopher Luxon has stood down health minister Shane Reti after just 15 months in the role. Mr Luxon is replacing Dr Reti with former transport minister Simeon Brown.  

As part of its coalition deal with National, the ACT Party is preparing to resurrect its “regulatory responsibility” legislation for the fourth time. This is despite the idea having been consistently rejected since 2007

When prime minister Christopher Luxon criticised doctors for prioritising young Māori and Pasifika patients, he called it a matter of need, not ethnicity. But if healthcare isn’t based on ethnicity, how will we truly capture those with the highest need, ponders Lucy O’Hagan

From the return of the prescription fee to childhood jabs getting the green light in community pharmacies, 2024 was a massive year for pharmacy. Jonathan Chilton-Towle looks back on the year that was

No internal control, no discipline and no budgetary understanding; commissioner Lester Levy was pulling no punches regarding what went wrong at Te Whatu Ora