Former eye surgeon, Dr Philip Macdonald, was sentenced in the Napier District Court last week for continuing to practise ...

How we’re working to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders.

The Ministry of Health welcomes the Government’s commitment to ongoing funding of $2 million per year for a Child and Youth Mental Health and Addiction Prevalence Survey, Dean Rutherford, Deputy ...

It is encouraging to see rates of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (IPD), a disease linked with severe forms of pneumonia and meningitis, decreasing among children under 2, following the reintroduction ...

Over 60 years of international and New Zealand research shows water fluoridation is both a safe and effective way to reduce tooth decay. The World Health Organization and other international and ...

How we’re working to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders.

The End of Life Choice Act 2019 is the law that makes assisted dying legal in New Zealand. The Act came into force on 7 November 2021, following a public referendum held alongside the 2020 General ...

The minimum quality standard is used to verify medicinal cannabis products which have been derived from the Cannabis plant. Medicinal cannabis products that meet the minimum quality standard and can ...

The Medicinal Cannabis Agency has set the application fee for a medicinal cannabis licence and product assessments to reflect the cost of processing and assessing applications and carrying out ...

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