Withdrawing from delivering PRIME services to your local community feels akin to a divorce but fatigue and financial pressures means providers are now reaching that stage, Te Anau specialist GP James MacMillan Armstrong told a national PRIME gathering today
ProCare Fresh Minds, New Zealand’s largest provider of primary mental health and wellbeing services, is delighted to be appointed, alongside Tāmaki Health, for Te Whatu Ora’s Psychologist Intern Hub Services for 2024. The Intern Hub is based at Fresh Minds’ busy central Auckland clinics, and at one of Tāmaki Health’s sites, and sees the interns working in various clinical settings across Tāmaki Makaurau
Te Whatu Ora says it is open to talks with ProCare about allowing registered nurses unaccredited for smear taking to process and handle HPV test swabs to reduce the burden on GPs
Fiona Cassie looks at the lead-up to the eleventh-hour allocation of new immunisation funding for general practices offered in the wake of the widening of infant vax providers to community pharmacies
A unit designed to tackle obesity in south Auckland is producing such impressive results, Te Whatu Ora director of population health gain Gary Jackson says a nationwide rollout of similar clinics would save lives and associated health costs
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora notes progress being made while also acknowledging challenges that remain as the latest Quarterly Performance Report is published
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