The latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow

Editorials

‘That Terrible Time’: Reflections on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand.
Geoffrey W Rice

Government priorities to reduce health inequities and address climate change must prompt a deeper re-think of health and healthcare for the 21st century
Alex Macmillan, Rhys Jones

Infectious disease and sepsis – not gone, not forgotten
Paul Huggan, Robert Martynoga

Articles

Antimicrobial Stewardship Practice in New Zealand’s Rural Hospitals
Jared K Green, Sharon J Gardiner, Sarah L Clarke, Lee Thompson, Sarah CL Metcalf, Stephen T Chambers

OPEN ACCESS - Reduction in surgical site infections in the Southern Cross Hospitals network, 2004–2015: successful outcome of a long-term surveillance and quality improvement project.
Arthur J Morris, Tanya M Jackways, Adrienne Morgan, Rosaleen Robertson, Muriel McIntyre

Healthcare-seeking behaviour of people with sexually transmitted infection symptoms attending a Sexual Health Clinic in New Zealand
Hayley Denison, Lisa Woods, Collette Bromhead, Jane Kennedy, Rebecca Grainger, Annemarie Jutel, Elaine M Dennison

Viewpoints

100 years since the 1918 influenza pandemic—progress made, yet questions remain. A synopsis of the 4th New Zealand Influenza Symposium, February 2018
Nadia Charania, Nikki M Turner

Pro-equity climate change and environmental sustainability action by district health boards in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Hayley Bennett, Paula King

“Implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP): Let’s not get caught with our pants down”
Peter J Saxton, Massimo Giola, Edward P Coughlan, Joseph G Rich, Sunita Azariah, Adrian H Ludlam, Christy O’Toole, Mike Pohl, Jason M Myers

Clinical correspondence

Blind Pouch Syndrome in Gastrojejunostomy
Jophia Kommunuri, Suheelan Kulasegaran, Peter Stiven

Research letter

Is impetigo a missed opportunity for scabies treatment?
Simon Thornley, Gerhard Sundborn, Mark Arbuckle, Belinda Loring, Maryann Heather, Edwin Reynolds.

Letter
Philippa Malpas Letter in response to: Professor Stephen Munn’s considered response on: Malpas PJ. New Zealand transplant patients and organ transplantation in China: some ethical considerations. N Z Med J. 2018;131(1478):55–61.