A few words

The best thing about my practice is the people...the trust I work for, the patients, who trust us with their care

Karen Carpenter, a practice nurse at Eastcare Health in Aranui, Christchurch, won a Pegasus Health leadership award after battling a liquor store licence in the suburb

Rose Stewart is national nurse advisor at Family Planning and has worked for the organisation since 1988. She was raised in Nelson, trained as a nurse in Christchurch, and is now based in Wellington

Jan Widdowson is a GP at The Doctors Kamo in Whangārei

GP Angus Chambers is a director of the Riccarton Clinic in Christchurch

GP Glenys Weir feels privileged to be part of Gore Medical Centre, where she arrived 38 years ago – not long after graduating from medical school in Dunedin

Narae Song is coming to the end of her first year as a GP registrar. She practises at Paraparaumu Medical Centre on the Kapiti Coast and this year won the Greg Judkins Poetry Competition at the Conference for General Practice