A primary care negotiation team starts meeting this week on an ambitious timetable to work through the $95-million-a-year “enhanced capitation” funding and capitation reweighting
Expressions of interest from overseas doctors keen on a general practice pathway to registration are being called for, but details of how many places will be available, or when or where the scheme will begin are still unknown
An in-house evaluation of WellSouth’s comprehensive primary care teams model says it addresses unmet need, with some seeing the potential end of team funding as a “huge, huge loss”
A legislative amendment to remove a long-standing prescribing barrier causing nurse practitioners and other authorised prescribers major issues since the pandemic is being welcomed
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
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
Successive governments say they are prioritising primary healthcare but the sector’s funding share is static and has even fallen in real terms, says a Victoria University of Wellington study
