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Alan Perrott spent a few days making regular calls to South Westland to catch up with health workers after floods cut off roads, and bridge collapses divided communities

Many New Zealanders aren’t reporting dog attacks because they don’t want to dob in family or friends, Auckland DHB emergency registrar Natasha Duncan-Sutherland says

Every GP in the country should be able to identify skin cancer says Chris Boberg, founder of The Skin Cancer clinic in Auck­land and co-chair of the Mela­noma Network of New Zealand

The second inquiry into the death from meningococcal disease of Auckland medical student Zachary Gravatt has made several recommendations and rejected an explanation from one of the event’s major players 

A resthome on Auckland’s North Shore twice provided an elderly resident with the wrong medication, in breach of her rights 

Christchurch GPs have received no instructions from the DHB about patient referrals despite ongoing disruption from the closure of the city’s outpatient building 

No internet, no cell phone, no money, no respite from the rain, and almost no way out of town; it’s been interesting times at the Fox Glacier clinic

The South Westland Area Practice clinic at Fox Glacier was the worst affected by the flooding that struck the West Coast this week. 

A live webinar to assist GPs dealing with patients suffering from mental trauma related to the Christchurch shooting will screen on the Goodfellow website tonight at 7.30pm 

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine is “100 per cent” behind the Government’s decision to ban military-style guns