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Funding for urgent care registrar training in 2025 is in limbo with the training body waiting to hear if its request for new workplace training funding is successful 

Four out of five NHS England general practices are now taking some form of collective action in a bid to stop the “collapse” of general practice, says a UK GP leader 

Details of how and when Plunket nurses will step into providing childhood immunisations are still being finalised, say Plunket and Te Whatu Ora leaders

Primary care will be facing a “tsunami” of elderly dying in two decades as death numbers nearly double, says a palliative care specialist

Patients living in rural locations are disadvantaged by a capitation model that doesn’t factor in their unique needs, says West Coast PHO chief executive Caro Findlay

A wahine toa, gracious lady and “rare gem” are some of the tributes paid to the much-loved rural, nursing and Māori health leader Rhoena Davis

Delays in settling Te Whatu Ora funding for GP registrar training in 2025 are creating a “significant amount of job insecurity” for potential GPs, says a doctors’ union leader 

Primary care will be facing a “tsunami” of elderly dying in two decades as death numbers nearly double, says a palliative care specialist

The number of nurse practitioner trainees Te Whatu Ora will fund in 2025 is up in the air, leaving would-be NPs and their general practices in limbo

Patients living in rural locations are disadvantaged by a capitation model that doesn’t factor in their unique needs, says West Coast PHO chief executive Caro Findlay