About 20 general practices were “onboarded’ to the long-awaited rural telehealth service in its first week, says Te Whatu Ora clinical director primary and community care Sarah Clarke
More than 600 GPs are today starting a daily work diary to capture data for an RNZCGP project seeking to show the gap between what GPs do “and what they are funded to do”
A pay boost for GP registrars helped attract a record 239 graduates to sign up to start their GP training in 2024, says RNZCGP president Samantha Murton
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
