Many people travel to high-altitude destinations, meaning clinicians are often faced with questions about how to prevent and treat altitude illness. Update your knowledge with this New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine summary of updated evidence-based guidelines with comments by senior lecturer Jenny Visser – it outlines the best prophylactic regimens, diagnostic approaches and treatment protocols for acute altitude illness
Beyond wishing: No fees? Targeted fees? Get primary care funding sorted!
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Beyond wishing: No fees? Targeted fees? Get primary care funding sorted!
Sunday 25 October 2020, 09:00 AM

Primary care has been calling for a funding review for most of the last decade, but the last Labour-led Government delivered instead the Health and Disability System Review. Almost no one in health believes the current funding arrangement works for New Zealanders – let alone for those with high needs. With no guaranteed answers under a new government, Martin Johnston goes in search of a workable formula
Many of the refugees on the books at GP Bryan Betty’s clinic in Cannons Creek, Porirua, are traumatised by the horrors they have fled. At the clinic,