Influenza and RSV were increasingly detected in patient swabs carried out in May in the community by GPs and nurses, as the ESR’s sentinel GP practice surveillance system stepped up for the winter
None of New Zealand’s three biggest private hospital companies have been approached about a 70-bed hospital proposed for Wānaka by a local property investment company
Budget 2024: Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network attempts to get a heads-up on the proposed capitation uplift from Te Whatu Ora post-Budget were unsuccessful, with the agency saying it was still being calculated, says rural health leader Grant Davidson
Budget 2024: A disappointing Budget could see some towns and doctors lose their family doctor altogether or, at the very least, face reduced services, says GP a owners leader Stephanie Taylor
The flu season is getting underway at the same time as high levels of COVID-19, RSV and other respiratory illnesses in a virus soup. It is making for a complex winter, says ESR virologist Sue Huang
GPs are being encouraged to diary their winter workload for a week this June as the next step in a project to build an evidence-based picture of what is a safe and sustainable patient load
A proposal to scrap the ACC funding barrier hindering general practices from employing paramedics to deliver PRIME and injury treatment services is warmly welcomed by rural providers
Two working groups were hurriedly created this month in the lead-up to the 1 July annual capitation increase that is being awaited with “considerable pessimism” by primary care leaders
An ongoing severe shortage of oestradiol patches has a Napier GP calling for an interim Special Authority to prescribe subsidised gels for high-risk women hit by the inconsistent supplies
Family connections in fastgrowing Wānaka helped prompt the decision to open a start-up general practice in the centre of the holiday town, says Oamaru specialist GP Andrew Wilson