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A breakdown of capitation and flexible funding for the past decade has been released to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa by Te Whatu Ora  

Barrington Medical Centre’s “Dr Who and the Witch Doctors” team took out Christchurch’s inaugural medical centre quiz night this week 

A general practice employers’ ‘best offer’ for the country’s biggest practice nurse pay deal will be delivered to the nurses’ union for members to vote on in early December

Dougal Thorburn, a much-loved specialist GP and public health physician with a “huge heart” for health equity, the environment and his patients, died recently

From next week, Dunedin’s urgent-care centre is turning away patients from practices that aren’t part of the after-hours roster of the local GP guild-owned and operated service

The Government sent PHOs a clear message to draw on any “rainy day funds”, and WellSouth’s $1.67 million deficit reflects this, WellSouth chair Doug Hill told today’s annual general meeting  

The trend towards more GP locums is hurting the GP recruitment efforts and finances of pressured practices, a recent WellSouth primary care survey finds 

Did you check out all the new dots on our updated practice ownership map? If not, Fiona Cassie suggests its worth taking a look and reading about the trends

In 2014, our first ownership map was published, dotting across the country the 108 medical centres then fully or partially sold to corporate and PHO networks.

A small marae-based GP clinic without a nurse for 12 weeks never gave up hope they would find someone.