Associate Health Minister with responsibility for Pharmac David Seymour has welcomed Pharmac’s Acting Chief Executive Brendan Boyle. Brendan Boyle will start as Pharmac’s Acting Chief Executive on ...

Associate Health Minister David Seymour has today welcomed the publication of Pharmac’s Consumer Engagement Workshop Report.

Health minister Simeon Brown made a series of sector announcements in the first week of March. Check out our full coverage of ...

Netflix’s new drama Toxic Town tells the true story of a group of women from Corby in Northamptonshire, UK, who gave birth to ...

Reporter Martin Johnston keeps track of what new health minister Simeon Brown has been up to since his appointment in January ...

Councils around the country who are still holding closed workshops have had a nudge from the Ombudsman to open their doors.

His figures are roughly correct. That $6000 represents about 80 per cent of all spending on health and ACC, with the other 20 ...

Māori are more likely to be diagnosed with bowel cancer at a younger age, and at more advanced stages, compared to non-Māori. Leading health experts and advocacy groups have long called for the ...

The Government’s decision announced Friday to unceremoniously dump the South Island Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency, resulting in hundreds of job losses and upheaval for thousands of whānau, is ...

“Peddlers of illicit drugs are a scourge on society and cause devastating harm on families and communities across the country. Increasing penalties supports law enforcement agencies to crack down on ...

Grant Davidson explains the difficulties in getting international graduates approved and how some of these doctors are ...

Sir Collin Tukuitonga, co-director of the Centre for Pacific and Global Health at Auckland University says the policy change for the bowel cancer screening age is unsophisticated and deeply flawed.