A national policy for rural hospitals that recognises unique rural needs is urgently needed, says rural hospital medicine specialist Katharina Blattner
A phone call from an “incandescent” rural doctor about being “shafted again” led to a rural general practice activist group going national 30 years ago
Community Services Card holders make up about 20 per cent of patients using an after-hours video-doctor service offered by 130 general practices, the National Rural Health Conference was told
Today’s practice nurse pay talks were deferred due to no change on the funding front and national stopwork meetings are planned instead, says NZNO spokeswoman Danielle Davies
COVID-19 is not over but the plateauing of cases means today was the last routine, live COVID-19 media conference after 300-plus briefings, says Public Health Agency deputy director-general Andrew Old