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Multiple failures by a GP who prescribed high doses of prednisone are a breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights, says health and disability commissioner Morag McDowell

Pacific health provider Alliance Health Plus PHO supports the establishment of a fully funded Māori health authority with commissioning powers 

South Auckland marae want to play a greater role in the COVID-19 response and will host their first pop-up testing station tomorrow  

ProCare’s Youth Advisory Group held its first meeting last month

Northland PHO Mahitahi Hauora has announced the resignation of chief executive Phillip Balmer, with chair Geoff Milner acknowledging uncertain times lie ahead

Racism is alive and well in the New Zea­land health and disability sector, says John Whaanga, deputy director-general Māori health

It is unlikely to make money, but a new clinic in the Whangārei suburb of Kamo was a no-brainer for Ki A Ora Ngātiwai, says chief executive Lynette Stewart

A diverse group of young people is working with Auckland PHO ProCare to find new ways of engaging youth with general practice

Women who brought their traumatic experiences with cervical cancer to the Cartwright Inquiry of the late 1980s made a huge impression on Morag McDowell, then a law student at the University of Auckland

Any move by Counties Manukau DHB towards providing primary care services would be a disaster, says NZMA chair and Wark¬worth GP Kate Baddock