Pegasus Health reports it has lost 45 per cent of its 24 Hour Surgery nursing staff since mid-April – mostly to higher-paid jobs at Christchurch Hospital
The country’s one-year rural medical immersion programme will be increased by 10 extra student places in 2024 and a new programme will launch for a further dozen students in 2025
Te Whatu Ora needs to treat the health system as one and “stop robbing” primary care in order to staff its hospitals, says the agency’s own national commissioning director
Practices should avoid becoming the “meat in the sandwich” between warring parents over their child’s health information, says medicolegal consultant Tim Cookson
Burned-out GPs need politicians to stop using health as a political football and to instead agree on solutions to the general practice crisis, leading GPs say
A 24-hour strike from 3pm tomorrow will see the country’s backbone Healthline and other national telehealth services prioritising services to “people in immediate danger”