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Consultation on Te Mauri o Rongo | NZ Health Charter closed early this month and the final draft is expected to be available online in coming weeks

Amendments have been tabled to ban direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines, as the Therapeutic Products Bill goes for its before Parliament

Free cervical screening has been announced for key groups in the move to a new HPV test 

Patrice Dougan gathers views on the apparent patchup job that has been done on a major piece of legislation on medicines and other therapies

Patrice Dougan gathers views on the apparent patchup job that has been done on a major piece of legislation on medicines and other therapies

David Bratt stands below a giant screen showing a fictional advert, signed off by a “desperate GP”, and asks: “You want to believe that we in general practice are going to hell in a handcart, but are we?”

A shortfall of 8000 health workers was revealed in the workforce plan announced today

Health minister Ayesha Verrall has unveiled the Government's plan to tackle the workforce crisis

A woman died of sepsis after hospital staff took 12 hours to realise she was acutely unwell 

The Therapeutic Products Bill has passed its second reading in Parliament as controversy continued on its coverage of rongoā Māori