The Office of Radiation Safety wish everyone who uses our services a safe and restful holiday period. We will be closed for the holiday period from the end of the day, Monday 23 December 2024 and ...

A specialist vape retailer (SVR) is a retailer that mainly sells vaping products. They need approval from the Ministry of Health to open, and they can sell a wider range of flavours than general ...

Former eye surgeon, Dr Philip Macdonald, was sentenced in the Napier District Court last week for continuing to practise after he voluntarily deregistered from the New Zealand Medical Council. He was ...

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

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 ...

Increasing access to health services, achieving equity and improving outcomes for Māori.

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 ...

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 ...