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Who the heck thinks the health system is coping, asks editor Barbara Fountain

Who the heck thinks the health system is coping, asks editor Barbara Fountain

Our category is back and so are we

Our category is back and so are we. After a hiatus last year when the specialist publication category fell off the call sheet, New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa is again a finalist in the national Voyager Media Awards 

A shocking number of GPs will be gone from primary care in five years. The health reformers have nothing to head off this disaster but there may still be time, writes Barbara Fountain

A shocking number of GPs will be gone from primary care in five years. The health reformers have nothing to head off this disaster but there may still be time, writes Barbara Fountain

HR contractors will be helping to run planned job restructuring at Te Whatu Ora

Eighty-one new positions are proposed for the commissioning arm of the revised Te Whatu Ora structure, but 530 are earmarked to be disestablished. 

Former Te Whatu Ora chair Rob Campbell describes as a “critical error” the rolling out of health reforms without a new funding model for primary care 

Plans for a revamped National Public Health Service are contained in a consultation document released to staff by Te Whatu Ora yesterday