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Alan Perrott unfolds the legacy of public health doctor George Salmond, who famously resigned from the Ministry of Health under a pro-market government and took the antinuclear fight to the world stage

Kate Baddock on her life as a kitten whisperer, stage protégée, boys’ school dux and boarding-house mother, to actual mother, chair of everything and, most proudly of all, a rural GP

A restrained rage was expressed by the speakers at the Child Poverty Action Group’s annual budget breakfast held in Auckland’s Mt Eden.

Divvying up money is one thing, says National Hauora Coalition chief executive Simon Royal, the key will be finding the right partners to deliver and execute a nuanced health strategy 

Professor of Māori and indigenous research at EIT, David Tipene-Leach says he is supportive of the Budget’s direction but is still awaiting the details 

The duration of the Government’s commitment is as important as the spending, says psychotherapist and Key for Life board member Kyle MacDonald 

The Aunties founder Jackie Clarke is cautiously optimistic about the budget 

Former Nelson Hospital cardiologist Samuel Wilson has been suspended for one year with three years work supervision by the New Zealand Health Practitioners Discplinary Tribunal 

The Government’s ministerial diaries suggest the health portfolio is almost a one-man band

Rhyming couplets, iambic pentameters, similies, met­aphors and double enten­dres, they’re all on the table for the RNZCGP’s fifth an­nual Greg Judkins Prize for Reflective Poetry