7 October 2020

The Influenza Vaccine Supply Chain Report is missing from the Ministry of Health website as I sit down to write

Congratulations to our reporter and website wrangler Zahra Shahtahmasebi who is a finalist in the Best Journalist – consumer special interest, current affairs,  business & trade category of the Magazine Awards

The Ministry of Health has retracted a false claim in a $90,000 report that many general practices were closed for a time earlier this year because of COVID-19

A review of the health sector response to the 2019 measles epidemic makes for “sobering reading” says Jim Miller, president of the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine

New Zealand cannot properly address health inequities until it acknowledges it has a problem, says Medical Council of New Zealand chair Curtis Walker

Dental amalgam poses a greater risk of potential harm for certain people, and they should avoid having their teeth filled with it, the US FDA says after watching the research on this for the past 20 years

The Ministry of Health has agreed – at all COVID-19 alert levels – to continue supplying general practices with personal protective equipment needed to swab patients for the disease

An expert advisory network has replaced the COVID-19 primary care technical advisory subgroup

Nearly 3000 New Zealanders have had five or more COVID-19 swabs, according to Ministry of Health figures

He’s the darling of the health sector but, if he wants to lead it, he appears to be in the wrong party