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Don’t be shy about getting involved in the New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora says Medispace chief executive Roy Simmons

A harm-detection system developed by charitable health IT organisation Patients First is identifying the risks involved in treatment

Auckland may be averaging about 19 new measles cases a day, but Auckland's regional medical officer of health William Rainger says there is no need to cancel major events involving at-risk age groups 

Counties Manukau outreach programme is set to go as new measles cases are confirmed across New Zealand 

New funding for Counties Manukau’s measles outreach programme has been announced on the same day as a warning is issued to people heading to Auckland

A specialist consultant with a history of alcohol-related offending has been suspended by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal for six months 

Obstetrics and gynaecology registrar Heather Johnston couldn’t compre­hend coroner Debra Bell’s report this month on the death of a baby

General practice is the heart of primary healthcare, says RNZCGP’s newly ap­pointed medical director Bryan Betty

The lack of clinical studies into medici­nal cannabis and the Government’s ap­parent rush to legislate were concerns for GPs at the RNZCGP Conference for General Practice in Dunedin

The first study to use general prac­tice records to identify patient harms incurred in hospital has found many incidents are not being recorded in hospital clinical notes