For the best part of six months, the long-time executive director of the New Zealand Drug Foundation has been dedicated to one task.

And in nine days’ time, that task will have been completed by Ross Bell. It will also be the final one of his 16-year tenure at the Wellington-based think-tank before taking a senior role at the Ministry of Health.

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Steve has reported for a number of consumer and B2B titles over a journalism career spanning more than three decades. He is a regulator contributor to health journal, The Medical Republic, writing on...

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