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Primary care leaders are pushing for the next Budget to allow general practice capitation funding to take health inequities and high needs into account

GPs and nurses in many South Island practices can now see at a glance online their patients who have attended the emergency department, or been discharged from hospital and may need follow-up

Urgent care provision in Dunedin is under review as planning ramps up for the city’s first community health hubs

Pegasus Health has shifted its online locum recruitment service BeefoundNZ north to Auckland

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

Westport’s biggest general practice is relocating this weekend in the long-awaited first step towards demolishing and replacing the ageing Buller Hospital

A Dunedin general practice has  tem­porarily closed its books after pos­itive publicity and word of mouth about its health care home changes contributed to it “drowning” in new patients

It is time for the pendulum to swing back towards generalism in medicine, says the new head of general practice and rural health at the University of Otago

Urgent care provision in Dunedin is under review as planning ramps up for the city’s first community health hubs

Canterbury general practices get better resources and face fewer restrictions in the way they run acute care – and do better by their patients