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“The norm” is getting increasingly hard to pin down

Really, 2020? Surely it was just yesterday we were count­ing down to the new millennium; when IT managers were simultaneously grinding their teeth and rubbing their hands anticipating millennium bug’s untold IT misery and the accompanying pay packet bonus for them?

Really, 2020? Surely it was just yesterday we were count­ing down to the new millennium; when IT managers were simultaneously grinding their teeth and rubbing their hands anticipating millennium bug’s untold IT misery and the accompanying pay packet bonus for them?

Many of the decisions our DHBs make – and the problems they face – are revealed months after the event. Is secrecy the problem, does the public care, or is something wrong with how we organise health governance? New Zealand Doctor editor Barbara Fountain investigates

New Zealand Doctor offices are closing down for a month but there’s still plenty to read including our bumper print Summer Edition 

 The day I had been dreading for around 25 years has arrived. My GP* is retiring. That’s “my” as in possessive case

 The day I had been dreading for around 25 years has arrived. My GP* is retiring. That’s “my” as in possessive case

Many summers ago – 30 in all – when New Zealand Doctor was born, it was decreed by the then editor that there should be no issues over the Christmas period and early summer

The year 2019 featured a few hotspots for general practice

It is not enough for the health system to be non-racist, it must be actively anti-racist and provide staff with the skills to be so, says professor Peter Crampton