The Annual Data Explorer presents results from the 2023/24 New Zealand Health Survey, with comparisons to earlier surveys where possible. The Annual Data Explorer presents results from the 2022/23 New ...

The Bill sets out requirements that medicines must meet to be considered through the verification pathway. Medsafe has met with individual companies and considers most companies applying for the ...

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

Health providers and products we regulate, and laws we administer.

This is the first periodic Review of Certain Matters under the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act 1977. The review identifies that some good progress has occurred. There is increased ...

Health providers and products we regulate, and laws we administer.

Health providers and products we regulate, and laws we administer.

The Ministry of Health has opened consultation today on health workforce regulation. Minister of Health Hon Simeon Brown has announced the Government is reviewing New Zealand’s health workforce ...

Dr Corina Grey has been appointed as the new Director of Public Health from 5 May. Public Health Agency Deputy Director-General Dr Andrew Old says Dr Grey has an extensive career working in research, ...

Growing, manufacture and sale of low-THC hemp seeds as food is now permitted. You need to meet the requirements of the Misuse of Drugs (Industrial Hemp) Regulations 2006 – for activities involving ...

This information is to provide clarity for New Zealand health practitioners about the difference between the legal requirements for prescribing and the subsidisation of pharmaceuticals, including ...

The annual returns platform has now closed. Any overdue returns must be filled out using the template on this page, and emailed to: [email protected]. Include your HARP licence code or NZBN in the ...