More than six months after first threatening sanctions against anti-COVID-19 vax doctors the Medical Council has placed interim suspensions on the practising certificates of three doctors
Residency rules have left Ōtaki Medical Centre still struggling after one of its GPs was forced back to the UK, while Rust Avenue Medical Centre in Whangārei is celebrating its UK GP’s return to the practice
The country’s first nurse practitioner spent far too much time criss-crossing Wellington by taxi, meeting the health decision-makers and urging them to open up opportunities for the role
No cases of influenza were detected in the community in winter 2021, but New Zealand’s lucky streak was marred by record cases of children being hospitalised with respiratory syncytial virus
Immunologist Dianne Sika-Paotonu adds her voice to supporting a catch-up on childhood vaccinations even as the country readies for a potential COVID-19 vaccination rollout to five to 11-year-olds