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
Bring back the Health Funding Authority – PHO chiefs’ prescription for success
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Bring back the Health Funding Authority – PHO chiefs’ prescription for success
Wednesday 3 June 2020, 03:30 AM

The health system structure proposed by PHO chief executives Martin Hefford and Helen Parker
Ahead of the Heather Simpson-led review’s release, a flurry of papers positioning primary healthcare fluttered into New Zealand Doctor. Journalist Martin Johnston looks at three papers – from the RNZCGP, two PHO chiefs and the primary care federation – which all seek major change
All 20 DHBs would disappear and health funding would revert to a central government authority, under a radical plan pitched by two primary health chie