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Nursing shortages have forced more than 40 per cent of general practices to close or cut back services, a ‘snapshot survey’ has found

Using the Official Information Act, Fiona Cassie discovers the Government’s three-year spend on COVID-19 general practice services was $900 million. A ‘huge amount’, or instead ‘papering over the cracks of unsustainable general practice’?

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

Using the Official Information Act, Fiona Cassie discovers the Government’s three-year spend on COVID-19 general practice services was $900 million. A ‘huge amount’, or instead ‘papering over the cracks of unsustainable general practice’?

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, Abbe Anderson

Key rural health services are under review but a long wait for fairer funding is unacceptable to many, writes Fiona Cassie

Puzzled practice managers and a health journalist trying to get their heads around the Government’s recently released roadmap for primary care?

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