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Accessing healthcare in rural areas isn’t always convenient, but it saves lives 

One of the more diverting opportunities at Fieldays 2019 in Mystery Creek was the chance to take a stroll through a rather enormous colon

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

 Mystery Creek’s Fieldays health and wellbeing hub proves a magnet for punters seeking help for their problems with depression and anxiety

The first nationwide study into the notified incidence of Legionnaire disease has found a rate three times higher than previously thought, and the highest anywhere in the world

The RNZCGP has released its 10 recommendations submitted to the Government’s Health and Disability System Review 

The actions of a midwife who told a mother she was receiving pain relief while only saline was actually being administered were disgraceful and dishonest says the health and disability commissioner 

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

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