Canterbury GPs stressed the need for “hotline” access to the region’s cancer service during a meeting yesterday over major cutbacks in oncology appointments due to staffing issues
Mediation gets underway tomorrow in the hope of a last minute resolution to the dispute that will otherwise see about 3200 practice nurses and receptionists strike for eight hours on Thursday
Where to from here with the COVID-19 pandemic was a major focus of GP questions during a webinar with Ashley Bloomfield last night, says RNZCGP medical director Bryan Betty
Six more general practices in Otago and Southland will get their first health improvement practitioners after a new cohort of the mental health clinicians was trained this week in Dunedin
Practice nurses’ pay is insulting to nurses, says GenPro chair Tim Malloy in response to yesterday’s announcement of strike action by nurses and receptionists in general practices
General practice in Bluff, origin of the country’s biggest COVID-19 cluster to date, was reporting business as usual last week during the latest burst of renewed COVID activity
Greymouth Medical Centre’s move into a new $121.9 million integrated hospital and health centre is part of the district’s "one health system” approach, says West Coast DHB general manager Philip Wheble
