Health Funding

Prescription fees are preventing patients from collecting medicines and the prescription subsidy scheme is confusing and cumbersome, the interim Health and Disability System Review has found

The bosses of the Pharmacy Guild and Countdown Pharmacy are advising their member pharmacies to vary their pharmacy services contracts

The health system faces another round of change, and its lead reviewer Heather Simpson is determined this will give priority to areas of most benefit to those who are least advantaged 

Health players are mulling yesterday’s announcement by Pharmac on its use of new Government funding 

South Auckland pharmacist Kathy Maxwell is running for the DHB to remind the board primary care exists, and it's more than just GPs

There's a new variation to the ICPSA, which would mean additional funds - but only if pharmacies want it

The range of publicly funded condoms available in New Zealand looks set to expand to include coloured and flavoured sheaths, but none will be black

"Another day older and deeper in debt” is a song lyric about Kentucky coal mining that could be applied to New Zealand’s DHBs

Pharmac has pulled the plug on eight inactive applications for public funding of medicines as part of its new policy of increased transparency on decision making

It is a "serious deficiency” that pharmacists are deprived of the type of funding provided to other health practitioners, say Australian researchers