Every week our team writes stories covering the changes taking place in the New Zealand health sector. The change is constant and we struggle at times to keep up with what people say will happen, what ...

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 ...

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

Pharmac is funding six more medicines for cancers and one for antibiotic resistant infections. The following medicines will be funded from 1 April 2025: nivolumab (branded as Opdivo) and ipilimumab ...

The first brand new helicopter of nine upgraded air ambulance helicopters that will operate around the country is now in service for people across Waikato, Coromandel and the King Country, Associate ...

Cabinet has agreed to progress stronger controls on 23 harmful substances, including the classification of three substances related to the potent opioid, fentanyl, Health Minister Simeon Brown says.

Health minister Simeon Brown made a series of sector announcements in the first week of March. Check out our full coverage of the announcements and what they mean for primary care below ...

The Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) Group marks two years of delivering the New Zealand Medical Treatment Scheme (NZMTS), a programme funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade ...

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.

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 ...