Remember those lyrics, “I get knocked down, but I get up again, you are never gonna keep me down…” (from Chumbawamba)? And Billy Ocean’s “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”?
A small group of general practice providers holds a meeting in a function room in Auckland. These are owner-operator GPs, corporate providers and long-standing general practice managers, all with a common purpose
What is the point of PHOs? I was reminded once that I had been quoted as calling my PHO a “self-licking ice cream”. I became a director of the same PHO to learn what I could about the functioning of the health system at a local level and represent my fellow GPs
We’re almost two years on from New Zealand’s first lockdown, which started in mid-March 2020 and lasted for seven weeks. It was an unprecedented move and a time of great uncertainty and disruption
Moral injury: knowing patient care could be better, but being unable to make the necessary changes due to constraints that are beyond [a doctor’s] control
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