Health Funding

The Government says a cost blowout for the new Dunedin Hospital, which could see its price tag reach close to $3 billion, means the planned project can no longer be justified

A six per cent increase in funding for lab services providers has been welcomed, but concerns remain about how much of it will reach those on the front line

A Cabinet paper from Budget 2024 released last week shows a $138 million Te Whatu Ora IT project, which was supposed to modernise the commissioning and payments systems for publicly funded health services, was on shaky ground

More than 1 million more prescriptions were dispensed after the removal of copayment charges by the previous government, Treasury papers show

GenPro hopes the legal action it has begun against Te Whatu Ora under the Fair Trading Act will lead to fair contracts being established 

Te Whatu Ora will provide up to $188 million over four years to support the delivery of new medicines, including the 26 cancer treatments promised by the Government in June

The pharmacy profession is under unsustainable pressure and patient care is suffering, according to PSNZ’s annual workforce survey

A new $10 million mental health and addictions fund has been criticised as having a set of ‘impossible prerequisites’ that lock community and grassroots organisations out of the application process writes Patrice Dougan

Academics from the University of Otago: Esther Willing, Peter Crampton, Robin Gauld; and from the University of Auckland: Jaime King, Paula Lorgelly and Tim Tenbensel onsider the parlous state of the health system

Treasury suggested boosting primary care funding would give better bang for buck than pouring extra millions into new cancer drugs.