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Day care centres are a useful place for reaching healthcare-shy whānau, says Rotorua GP Alastair McLean

Moerewa Medical Services forced to close last Friday by flooding 

Migrant and refugee students from Porirua College have donated $405 to Pacific Health Plus 

National Hauora Coalition launches Best Start Kōwae, a pregnancy care programme to Māori, for Māori and by Māori 

Māori health and proposed Māori Health Authority were up for discussion in the second of New Zealand Doctor’s Popcorn Panels 

A petition has been launched by the Ōpōtiki community calling for the Government to adopt the “alternate view” published in the final report of the Health and Disability System Review and create a Māori Health Authority with full commissioning rights 

Day care centres are a useful place for reaching healthcare-shy whānau, says Rotorua GP Alastair McLean

Former Napier GP Medhane Mesgena has been censured and fined over failures in his assessment of 12-year-old victim of sexual assault

The partners in a kaupapa Māori project providing health and social services support to former prisoners and their whānau are looking for new funding to expand their efforts 

The GP has been censured, fined $7,500 and ordered to pay costs of $22,500 by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal