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Oliver Hunt is an engineer by profession, but medicine is in his blood. His 94-year-old grandmother and late grandfather were GPs, his mum is an endocrinologist, his aunt is a physiotherapist and his uncle, an orthopaedic surgeon

A Budget bid of about $200,000 is sought by the Health Care Home Collaborative to widen access to its general-practice model of care

The growing pay gap between practice and DHB nurses risks putting general practice services under greater pressure, says NZMA chair Kate Baddock

An up to 10.6 per cent pay rise for senior practice nurses is being sought by the nurses’ union to close a growing pay parity gap with DHB nurses

A Timaru GP concerned about health equities and the area’s ageing GP workforce is the new primary care chief medical officer for South Canterbury DHB.

When Southern DHB next month holds its first board meeting in nearly five years, former Medical Council chair Andrew Connolly will be there to keep a clinical eye on proceedings

Nursing leaders honoured in the New Year are keen to see progress for nursing as the International Year of the Nurse gets underway

This spring, Christchurch’s first Muslim support workers were welcomed onto Rehua Marae
 

From the Far North to Invercargill, many more “dots” are peppering the New Zealand Doctor practice-ownership map

The plan for cash-strapped Oamaru Hospital to contract as a provider of primary care is on hold, in favour of it potentially becoming a community health hub