The flu vaccine should be added to the childhood vaccination schedule to reduce the risk of an even more severe RSV-type flu outbreak next winter, believes paediatrician Cameron Grant
There has been a high uptake by Māori and Pacific of new diabetes drugs under Pharmac’s first ethnicity-based funding criteria – a publicity campaign to encourage more uptake is to start soon
After a very slow start there are now at least over 160 general practices nationwide offering COVID-19 vaccinations to their patients, according to the Healthpoint website
New Zealand graduate nurses are choosing to work in general practice and other primary care settings much earlier in their career and in higher numbers than previously
A Westport general practice was forced to relocate, and staff of two Marlborough clinics were cut off from work, after last month’s extreme flooding in the South Island.
An Ōtaki GP has been forced to return to the UK by the Government’s freeze on new residency applications, and a Kāpiti GP fears her family may have to follow.
New Zealand graduate nurses are choosing to work in general practice and other primary care settings much earlier in their career and in higher numbers than previously.
Many overseas doctors want to work in New Zealand, but a pandemic-related pause on doctor residency applications is getting in the way, say recruitment agencies.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a spike in overseas specialists registering in New Zealand, and fewer New Zealand-trained doctors leaving the country.