A sharp drop in COVID-related income saw national telehealth provider WhakarongorauAotearoa record a $2.3 million loss in the 2023 financial year, which was split between its co-owners, PHOsProCare and Pegasus Health
A long-mooted third medical school is a step forward with the Ministry of Health and the University of Waikato signing a memorandum that kickstarts the business case required by the Coalition Government agreements
The nurses’ union doesn’t want general practices to fall over, NZNO spokesperson Glenda Alexander told a webinar, in response to hearing practices are frightened that an unfunded nurse pay equity claim will see them go under
Fair pay, Funding reform and additional workforce are urgently needed to get healthcare out of crisis, the incoming health minister Shane Reti has been repeatedly told in briefings by sector organisations
Sixty per cent of urgent care doctors responding to a Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care survey say their clinics had to close during usual opening hours last year, largely due to staff shortages
Christchurch’s two biggest urgent care centres will continue to receive extra “sustainability” funding from Te Whatu Ora for 2024 to address cost pressures which saw centre hours cut last year
After nearly two years sitting empty, the medical centre space in the $14.7 million health hub at Rolleston in Canterbury will at last get a general practice tenant
Fair pay for all members of the general practice team, along with urgent funding reform, are some solutions to the current crisis outlined in three sector briefings to new health minister Shane Reti
A funding injection is needed to stop Dunedin’s dedicated urgent-care centre being forced to cut services, with a negative flow-on impact to local GPs, says Dunedin Urgent Doctors and Accident Centre manager Adam O’Byrne
Pegasus Health, the last of the “big four” PHO networks to enter general practice ownership, this week announced the purchase of Lincoln Medical Centre in league with local rūnanga