Five months of official Medicare billing data shows after a decade of cuts and neglect from the Liberals, the slide in the GP bulk billing rate has stopped and bulk billing has now stabilised, since the Albanese Government tripled the bulk billing incentive
The registration of a new vaccine which took around 50 years to develop, is set to offer older Kiwis protection against RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease for the first time
Associate Health Minister David Seymour’s announcement of an additional $1.774, to address Pharmac’s deficit over the next 4 years is a good first step to ensure Kiwi’s continue to have access to existing funded medicines
The Health and Disability Commissioner has found an obstetrician and gynaecologist breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights for failures in communication regarding a woman’s gynaecological procedure
A massage therapist has been referred to the Director of Proceedings by the Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner to assess if further legal action is required
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (now Te Whatu Ora Te Matau a Māui) breached Right 4(1) of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights
Māori Public Health Organisation, Hāpai Te Hauora, released the Whakakotahitanga Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Guidelines, alongside the Government who announced its renewed priorities for FASD this morning at Papakura Marae
“While we welcome the Government’s commitment to ensuring all of the medicines New Zealanders can already access will continue to be funded, today’s announcement sadly doesn’t even touch on the broader problem of Kiwis being denied new, modern drugs"
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced Pharmac’s largest ever budget of $6.294 billion over four years, fixing a $1.774 billion fiscal cliff
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