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Porirua GP Bryan Betty has been announced as RNZCGP’s new medical director 

O&G registrar Heather Johnston believes coroners report on baby Sapphire’s death will put mother’s off breastfeeding 

Island Bay GP Richard Medlicott has resigned after three and a half years as medical director of RNZCGP and is looking forward to more leisure activities

News of the inaugural New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora has been greeted with excitement from the sector 

Nelson ophthalmologist Derek Sherwood uses himself as an example of the pitfalls of over-testing and overtreatment in healthcare

Doctors will get complaints – they are a fact of life – and the best protection is knowing how vulnerable you are, says Australian public health physician and health lawyer Marie Bismark

Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Chang­ing Magic of Tidying Up will never be a set text for GP registrars, but that didn’t stop its merits being touted at their breakfast event at the RNZCGP conference

She was the accidental doctor who couldn’t be a police officer or a vet, then became a journalist, before hav­ing a crack at medicine

ACC is seeking to appeal a High Court decision that extended coverage to people who contracted mesothelioma outside a workplace

If opening a new practice is hard enough, Lung Choi is also targeting his Grafton Medical Centre at a specific community