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Pinnacle PHO’s unprecedented gifting of Ōwhata Medical Centre to Ngāti Pikiao is the start of transformational change, says specialist GP Grace Malcolm

The number of outlets selling cigarettes around the country will be slashed by 90 per cent

Auckland primary care network Tāmaki Health will include healthcare practitioners in its cultural competency programme next year

The Māori PHO collective has formalised its cooperative intent by adopting a new ingoa, Te Kāhui Hauora Māori

A GP decided against examining a woman, in her 60s, who was too unwell to fully engage in a consultation – and the patient died a few weeks later from metastatic oesophageal cancer

As if competing against professionals from around the world isn’t challenge enough, next year will see World of WearableArt finalist and specialist GP Noriko Noda up against her daughter

David Letele’s community-focused health and fitness programmes are expanding thanks to primary care organisations and Te Whatu Ora

Pinnacle PHO’s decision to gift Ōwhata Medical Centre to Ngāti Pikiao was “simply the right thing to do”, says chief executive Justin Butcher

A ceremony to mark the unprecedented gifting of the Pinnacle PHO-owned Ōwhata Medical Centre to Ngāti Pikiao will be held in Rotorua on Sunday

Wellness teams based in general practice could be the answer to the dire uptake of cardiac rehabilitation services, says exercise sciences research fellow Paul Marshall