Newborn pre-enrolment with a general practice is to be extended to 12 months to avoid the risk of babies falling through the gaps and missing immunisation recalls
A “hard reset” for Te Whatu Ora to address many of the issues affecting the agency is planned by Christmas, according to Lester Levy, the recently appointed Te Whatu Ora commissioner
The timing and funding for health minister Shane Reti’s suggestion of primary care delivering some of the extra cancer drugs is still “to be determined”, a Te Whatu Ora senior official says.
Census data is “not fit for purpose” when applied to delivering healthcare to Pacific peoples, says public health physician and epidemiologist Gerard Sonder
Health New Zealand is moving forward implementation planning to ensure a small group of cancer patients can take advantage of free early access to the drug Keytruda shortly ahead of Pharmac starting to fund the medication
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
From when I began my over three decades as Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) I gradually got to know many capable health journalists
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
Another year, another annual increase offer rejected for failing to recognise the ever-growing crisis in general practice. How did we get to this “boiling frog” moment? Fiona Cassie looks at the past and future of general practice contract negotiations
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