24 October 2018 - A request that the government's drug-buying agency be reviewed has opposition support with claims money is being used ineffectively.
A review of the government's drug-buying agency could be on the cards as accusations fly about funding for new medicines being pulled to help settle the nurses' pay dispute
National Party health spokesperson Michael Woodhouse, who first raised the issue, said he'd been advised that Health Minister David Clark had told the country's district health boards to use medicine savings to fund the nurses' settlements.