The Government has recently announced its plan to modernise the regulation of medicines and medical devices by replacing the Medicines Act 1981 with a new Medical Products Bill (Bill). It has also decided that natural health products would be regulated under a standalone bill, yet to be developed.
The high rate of prescribing for probable gender dysphoria in New Zealand, and the decline after 2021, require further investigation.
New Zealand is prescribing up to seven times more puberty blockers to young transgender patients than other similar countries, new analysis shows.
Details of how and when Plunket nurses will step into providing childhood immunisations are still being finalised, say Plunket and Te Whatu Ora leaders.
Thousands of New Zealanders are failing to get proper screening for bowel cancer.
Pharmac is proposing to widen access to a medicine used in the treatment of chronic heart failure.
Ian Powell formed his ideas of pathologists from watching too many crime dramas involving forensic pathologists. His favourite was CSI's Doc Robbins.
Hospital-based MRI and nuclear medicine technologists have stopped work for four days from 6am Friday morning.
Gene technology (also known as genetic engineering or genetic modification) has been used in New Zealand for a long time. The updated rules intend to support our scientists in using gene technologies to make advancements in healthcare and climate change, protect our unique environment, lift our agricultural productivity, and boost exports.
We are being told the health system is in crisis, “on the brink of failure” – spending beyond its budget, waiting times getting longer, suffering from widespread staff shortages. Read...
HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS
EQUITY
Exploring the impacts of the health system on minorities within the population, notably including Māori, Pacifica, Asians and LGBTQI.
DRUGS, DEVICE AND DIAGNOSTICS
PUBLIC HEALTH
DIGITAL HEALTH
TE TIRITI