+In the spotlight

Patrice Dougan explores life on remote Pitcairn Island through the eyes of former resident specialist GP Kevin Donovan

Another year, another annual increase offer rejected for failing to recognise the ever-growing crisis in general practice. How did we get to this “boiling frog” moment? Fiona Cassie looks at the past and future of general practice contract negotiations

For two years reporter Alan Perrott has been chasing the fate of $20 million worth of diabetes funding only to discover spending money isn’t as easy as you would think

There’s no point in taking a mountain to Mohammed if it isn’t the mountain he needs. Reporter Alan Perrott talks to the team taking healthcare to the Bay of Plenty’s offshore island communities

A pro-choice, pro-science, pro-vaccine, proud mother and oenophile – that’s wine lover – is how freshly retired specialist GP Pippa MacKay sums herself up in her ‘X’ bio. During their chat on Dr MacKay’s last day of practising medicine, Fiona Cassie finds out the former New Zealand Medical Association chair forgot to add ‘political junkie’

Tony Hanne refused to put rules ahead of his patients and it cost him his career. Reporter Alan Perrott talks to the specialist GP and ADHD expert about taking on the system

As Te Whatu Ora approaches the end of its second year leading the publicly funded health sector, reporter Martin Johnston reviews the prospects for a number of contracts in the primary care sector

Are physician associates a much-needed extra source of safe hands for stretched general practice?

Fiona Cassie looks at the lead-up to the eleventh-hour allocation of new immunisation funding for general practices offered in the wake of the widening of infant vax providers to community pharmacies

It’s amusing that the man wanting to catch the ear of the universe has been on the receiving end of its advice his entire life