The 2021 Budget sets aside nearly $500 million to implement health reforms, giving less to the soon-to-be-defunct DHBs and providing funding boosts to several health workforces to address cost pressures, including primary care. Pharmacy Today/Kaitiaki Rongoā o te Wā reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports
The Māori Health Authority will be “lights on and up and running” on 1 July 2022, says associate health minister Peeni Henare, but there is much mahi to be done before that happens
Scrapping patient copayments is one of the options being put to the Government next by the Health and Disability Review Transi¬tion Unit, says the unit’s deputy head, Martin Hefford
A long-awaited cervical screening test that women can do themselves and will reduce the need for smear test will be funded by the government, and changes to breast cancer screening could screen more women
If the Pharmacy Council cannot find a home for nearly half a million dollars in relief funding by the end of next month, it will be forced to return the money to the Ministry of Health
DHBs will disappear, and primary and community care will be organised in locality networks, under changes unveiled by health minister Andrew Little on 21 April
DHBs will disappear, and primary and community care will be organised in locality networks, under changes unveiled by health minister Andrew Little on 21 April
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management