The nationwide shortage of GPs has reached a stage where patients in areas like Northland are waiting years to sign up with a local GP, driving up demand for telehealth services, specialist GP Rory Johnston says
Following confirmation by the Drug Foundation on Tuesday that some lollies in food parcels from Auckland City Mission contained methamphetamine, our staff have been contacting people who may have received a food parcel through one of our services
Editor Barbara Fountain returns from a week’s leave to find turmoil in the health system continues and hopes health minister Shane Reti can hold to his promise of better times ahead for community care and Māori health
Editor Barbara Fountain returns from a week’s leave to find turmoil in the health system continues and hopes health minister Shane Reti can hold to his promise of better times ahead for community care and Māori health
Since being appointed as the commissioner of Te Whatu Ora late last month, Lester Levy has raised the hackles of unions, infuriated the Opposition and promised to slash $1.4 billion from the agency’s spending over the next year
A fair and reasonable 40-hour week for a “full-time” GP – without unpaid catch-up work – would have just 22 hours of patient contact time, the latest RNZCGP workload research has found
Health officials expect a $30 million scheme announced by health minister Shane Reti to expand access to primary care-referred radiology will actually reduce demand in some areas by weeding out inappropriate requests
The equity adjustor tool should remain in place while ways are found to improve its utility, says specialist GP and former Te Aka Whai Ora clinical director Rawiri McKree Jansen
After a sojourn, the System Fix panel is back with an update of the last five months in health reform – that is the time BEFORE health minister Shane Reti turned Te Whatu Ora and the reforms on their head by ditching the board and installing a commissioner
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