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Canterbury GPs want “hotline” access to the region’s cancer service in the wake of major cutbacks in oncology ap­pointments due to staffing issues

The details of how a $56.9 million Canterbury DHB cost-saving plan will impact on primary care in the region are not yet clear, says Pegasus Health PHO chief executive Vince Barry

Six more general practices in Otago and Southland will get their first health improvement practitioners, after a new cohort was trained last month in Dunedin

Six months on from New Zealand’s first confirmed case, COVID-19 is bedding in to shape our lives for many months and probably years to come

Social media has blurred the distinction between behaving badly at work and doing so outside work hours, employment lawyer Sean O’Sullivan says

General practices can save thousands of dollars by reviewing and renegotiating their spending with their medical suppliers, says healthcare business advisor Chris Ross

The sudden switch to more virtual consults under COVID-19 has highlighted a gap in general practice reporting that a working group is hoping to quickly resolve 

The Government has turned to an old hand in former director-general of health Stephen McKernan to lead a new unit implementing the Health and Disability System Review report

Frontline practice nurses downed stethoscopes and grabbed placards to protest around the country today in support of their longstanding battle for pay parity 

Striking practice nurses will wear masks to a silent, socially distanced protest at Parliament tomorrow backing their call for funding for pay parity with their public hospital colleagues