Practitioner, practice and national medicines data for six EPiC dashboard themes and 21 data stories is now current for the period ending 31 December 2022
With RNZ revelations today of harmful industries lobbying policymakers and Ministers via commercial firms, health groups are launching a series of urgent recommendations to regulate lobbying in Aotearoa
Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic can help support the mental health and wellbeing of communities recovering from Cyclone Gabrielle. This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara - the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report, Supporting wellbeing after a crisis.
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Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission
The AMA has written to the federal government, encouraging it to drive reforms to make medicines prescribed by doctors cheaper by allowing pharmacies to discount pharmaceutical benefits scheme (PBS) medicines that have a co-payment
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Media Release from the Australian Medical Association
Unichem and Life Pharmacy are calling on New Zealanders struggling with their sleep to reach out to their local Unichem and Life pharmacy teams to get tested for sleep apnoea
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Media release from Green Cross Health and Pharmacy Sleep Services
The Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier has published his half-yearly data on Official Information Act (OIA) and Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA) complaints
Academic pharmacist Nataly Martini provides key information on Helicobacter pylori pathophysiology, diagnosis and evidence-based treatment strategies to enhance patient outcomes