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PACKAGE: $34.2 million over five years for nurse practitioner training

PACKAGE: $30.4 million over five years to “attract, recruit and support” up to 400 graduate nurses a year

PACKAGE: $23.94 million over four years for migrant doctors placed in general practice

PACKAGE: $21.6 million over four years for up to 120 nurses to upskill in primary care each year

Some common themes arose when Fiona Cassie spoke to migrant doctors working their way through training in generaal practice. She spoke to RNZCGP president Samantha Murton about the college’s role in addressing those challenges

A Sri Lankan GP inching her way to New Zealand registration says it’s hard to resist looking across the Tasman to the greater support network on tap

At the start of this year, Pedram Zawarreza became a GP Fellow and a practice owner. The Iran-trained doctor is keen that other migrant doctors have a less torturous path than the 15 years it took him to become a Kiwi specialist GP. Fiona Cassie reports

Veteran specialist GP Phil Schroeder hopes to reboot and extend his career by stepping back from being a frontline GP to focus on being his practice’s clinical and managing director

Practice nurses and employers have voted to accept an 8 per cent pay offer, bringing the sector’s biggest pay deal back up to about 90 per cent of public hospital nurses’ base pay rates

Care is needed to prevent the new 24/7 online medical service driving negative changes in patient behaviour and threatening the viability of primary care, says Tāmaki Health chief executive Lloyd McCann