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The practice nurse pay talks stalled, as expected, over lack of funding for pay parity and were entering mediation as New Zealand Doctor went to press

Twenty years ago, the forerunner of Southern Rehab began life in Canterbury with no contract and no patients, but a team approach to injury rehabilitation

West Coast GP Martin Smith is delighted to have avoided closing the solo practice he founded in Westport seven years ago

Flu surveillance data shows calls to Healthline about child cough and cold symptoms doubled in the week before the country was alerted of the country’s COVID-19 border control failure

A Grey Lynn GP is overwhelmed after her video homecare plan for COVID-19 went viral from India to the UK, USA and back again to New Zealand 

The General Practice Owners Association pitch to be at least one of the two general practice voices at the next capitation talks will be heard by the General Practice Leaders Forum 

Laboratories swamped by emailed test requests during the COVID-19 lockdown were relieved by an upsurge in GPs taking up e-ordering – but the uptake in some regions remains slow

The challenges facing primary health care rate more immediate attention and more speed than the Simpson report recommendations appear to offer, say two health policy analysts 

GPs are being urged to wear red tomorrow to highlight practice nurses’ frustration at the lack of  Government funding for pay parity 

Primary care networks existed before PHOs and will continue to do so even if the Simpson report recommendations are taken up, says Pegasus Health chief executive Vince Barry