Prostate cancer consultations are common in primary care and there is no one approach to testing and treatment that fits all patients. Urologist Simon van Rij discusses the key considerations and options for personalised care, appropriate investigation and treatment
Beyond wishing: No fees? Targeted fees? Get primary care funding sorted!
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Beyond wishing: No fees? Targeted fees? Get primary care funding sorted!
Friday 6 November 2020, 10:19 AM
Primary care has been calling for a funding review for most of the last decade, but the last Labour-led Government delivered instead the Health and Disability System Review. Almost no one in health believes the current funding arrangement works for New Zealanders – let alone for those with high needs. With no guaranteed answers under a new government, Martin Johnston goes in search of a workable formula
Many of the refugees on the books at GP Bryan Betty’s clinic in Cannons Creek, Porirua, are traumatised by the horrors they have fled. At the clinic,