Summer Hiatus is here!

Summer Hiatus, it’s an eclectic selection of News and Educate articles from our archives and other sources. All Summer Hiatus articles are FREE READ – that is, in front of the paywall – or as I like to think of it, Free and Easy – Free to Read and Easy to Share. 

While we are out of the office our Comment function will be turned off. So, save up your thoughts for our return in the New Year. Can you believe it, 2023!

Along with our Summer Hiatus selection, maybe take a wander around our website. You’ll find a cache of excellent opinion from sector-wide commentators under Opinion

The work of our regular columnist, independent policy consultant Gabrielle Baker, who not only shines a light in current Māori health and disability services policy but also cleverly places good intentions in their historical context, can be found collated here

Policy puzzler and Auckland University associate professor Tim Tenbensel has followed the ebbs and flows, highways and byways of health reform policy for a couple of decades; find his collected columns here

And specialist GP and gifted writer Lucy O’Hagan shares her insights into life and death and all avenues between in her regular column Just wondering

You can check out issues of years gone by in the Long-Term Print Archives, provided by the folks at The Knowledge Basket. You’ll find them in the Vault.

All 21 episodes of our podcast, System Fix - the podcast for health reform junkies which looks at progress with the current health reforms are collected here

You can check out the work of our reporting team members by name here

COVID-19 has been hovering throughout the year and will continue to shadow us over the summer. If you’re wondering how it all started take a journey down this incredible Coronavirus timeline maintained throughout the last three years by Martin Johnston

For everything that has been written about the virus check out this COVID-19 tag hub page

While we are out you will still be able to access our Free Classifieds service.

If you’re looking to add a subscription to your practice or know of a GPEP registrar who has not picked up their free subscription, please go to our subscription page. We now also offer group subscriptions based on IP address – no more passwords to remember.

All our Practice and How to Treat articles are available in Educate. You can browse by topic using the A-Z index on the Educate Home Page.

We have added a selection of FREE READ Practice articles to Summer Hiatus which means you can share them with colleagues.

And dip into He Ako Hiringa the education programme aimed at achieving equity in access to medicines. It is produced by Matui – a joint venture involving New Zealand Doctor’s publisher, The Health Media.

The EPiC dashboard produced by He Ako Hiringa allows prescribers to interrogate their prescribing data and compare it with practice and national data. As a New Zealand Doctor prescriber you can log on directly

For short fixes of clinical knowledge, check out PEARLS and Gems. These little nuggets are quick and easy clinical updates and are intended as practice-changing or practice-maintaining. 

Remember, if you are a subscriber, you can make use of our Capture function to keep a record of your reading, watching and listening.

As mentioned earlier, from today the Comments function on the website will be turned off until Monday 16 January. But if you have to get something off your chest don’t hesitate to write a letter to the editor – editor@nzdoctor.co.nz – I’ll take a look when I get back.

We resume online news coverage on 16 January and our first Daily Triage is 17 January 2023.

Our first print edition will be published on 1 February.

That’s all for 2022. Thanks for reading us and even more, thanks for subscribing to us. We love our subscribers.