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
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