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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Because the activities to be covered by a medicinal cannabis licence are linked to a specific location, you will need to have secured a suitable location before you apply for a medicinal cannabis ...

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

If you hold a medicinal cannabis licence with a ‘cultivation’ activity you may import cannabis seeds for the purposes of cultivation from a country that allows export under an export licence. You will ...