Many people travel to high-altitude destinations, meaning clinicians are often faced with questions about how to prevent and treat altitude illness. Update your knowledge with this New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine summary of updated evidence-based guidelines with comments by senior lecturer Jenny Visser – it outlines the best prophylactic regimens, diagnostic approaches and treatment protocols for acute altitude illness
Systems in decline: Time for a radical shift?
Saturday 7 September 2024, 05:25 PM
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Are the health systems of the UK and Aotearoa at a crossroads? [Image: AerialPerspective Work on iStock]
After years of struggling with ineffective reforms and increasing challenges, both the NHS and New Zealand’s health system face critical junctures. Jonathan Simon wonders if a patient-centred, digital health revolution could be the answer
In this scenario, the new entrants to the health sector would have to create a new system with different funding and models of care
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