The limited number of regions able to enlist graduate practice nurses for voluntary bonding excludes some high-need areas, says College of Nurses Aotearoa executive director Kate Weston
GP medical referrals to Whanganui Hospital are once again being triaged after staffing levels improved, but clinicians remain keen to review the hospital’s “gatekeeper” role
An early version of My Health Record will go live late this month, giving many New Zealanders access to their full vaccination record from flu to measles
A couple who met on the Chatham Islands have returned to their island roots by taking on the general practice and community health centre on Great Barrier Island (Aotea)
For 35 years, Ivan Howie ‘hatched, matched, patched and dispatched’ the people of Great Barrier Island as their doctor and celebrant, writes Fiona Cassie
Practices with closed books, retiring GPs struggling to sell practices and unfilled GP trainee places are also issues in the Netherlands, says Dutch College of General Practitioners acting chair Dorien Zwart
All child and adult immunisation data is to be shifted to the new $38 million Aotearoa Immunisation Register this month as the gremlin-beset National Immunisation Register is put out to pasture