After breaking down doors to escape the slumping Grand Chancellor Hotel, health professionals at a paediatrics course in Christchurch put their skills into practice in Latimer Square
Christchurch’s High Street Medical Centre will be making a fresh start in a new location when it reopens its doors for the first time after the 22 February earthquake but memories of the day will linger
Creating a new health centre worth $5 million for the Counties Manukau rural town of Waiuku has been like running an "ultra marathon", GP Mark Eustace says
You once thought of me As a white knight on his steed Now you know how happy I can be Oh, and our good times start and end Without dollar one to spend But how much, baby, do we really need
It started with the words "devolution" and "integrated family health centres" in the National Party's pre-election health manifesto: Better, Sooner, More Convenient. Then, at the start of this year, health minister Tony Ryall instructed DHBs to start planning to begin transferring some secondary services to primary care, at no cost to patients
It started with the words �devolution� and �integrated family health centres� in the National Party�s pre-election health manifesto � Better, Sooner, More Convenient
Take one GP. Put him or her in a room with a whiteboard. Add one interested hospital clinician, a DHB manager and funder and, voilā, you have the ingredients for a successful recipe
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management