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A new $17 million funding pool to “stabilise” the fragile urgent-care sector appears to be coming to the aid of some vulnerable services while rejecting or coming too late for others

Are physician associates a much-needed extra source of safe hands for stretched general practice?

Rural clinicians were celebrated with awards at the 2024 National Rural Health Conference, alongside warnings of the rural workforce being at breaking point  

National Rural Health Conference attendees at the weekend were told of a push to have rural clinicians gain access to a new, much improved mobile broadband service for first responders 

Withdrawing from delivering PRIME services to your local community feels akin to a divorce but fatigue and financial pressures means providers are now reaching that stage, Te Anau specialist GP James MacMillan Armstrong told a national PRIME gathering today

One of the West Coast’s few independent general practices ended a tough 2023 by moving into a new building, employing a new permanent GP and taking on a new name, Kawatiri Health

Fiona Cassie looks at the lead-up to the eleventh-hour allocation of new immunisation funding for general practices offered in the wake of the widening of infant vax providers to community pharmacies

Fiona Cassie looks at the lead-up to the eleventhhour allocation of new immunisation funding for general practices offered in the wake of the widening of infant vax providers to community pharmacies

The growth in nurse practitioners has prompted the profession’s national body to release its first position statement on the NP role, says Nurse Practitioners New Zealand incoming chair Chelsea Willmott

One of the pillars of Canterbury’s internationally acclaimed ‘whole of system’ health approach is to close next month. Fiona Cassie reports on the closure of the Canterbury Clinical Network