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
Persuading paediatricians they can do a cardiovascular check on an adult is part of an Azerbaijan pilot project to create generalist GPs from specialists
Whanganui GPs were frustrated to be told by Te Whatu Ora only urgent medical referrals can be taken at Whanganui Hospital after the number of medical consultants temporarily plunged to just two