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Hinamaha Lutui was gently blindsided just as a PHO meeting was ending

Nina Bevin (Waikato-Tainui) has been selected as the new board apprentice for the RNZCGP

Don Matheson has returned from Australia to take a new top job – deputy director-general of public health and primary care transformation at the
Ministry of Health

Health and Disability System Review Panel chair Heather Simpson denied secretariat support to panel members trying to make the case for a Māori
agency with commissioning powers

An experienced GP claiming an “envia­ble reputation” offered treatment that constituted malpractice and negligence, and brought discredit on his profession, the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal has ruled

An Auckland kaupapa Māori project supporting former prisoners and their whānau is continuing, despite its fund­ing coming to an end

A woman was treated and sent home by a GP only to require immediate hospitalisation due to undiagnosed sepsis shock

Final New Zealand Doctor Popcorn Panel discusses proposed structural changes to the health system 

Two weeks of quarantine will do just nicely for Don Matheson as he prepares to tackle his new role as deputy director-general of public health and primary care transformation