WellSouth is now partnering with three Ngāi Tahu rūnaka for a new joint venture general practice for Invercargill while pursuing a separate joint venture for an after-hours service
A single piece of paper recording all the faxed prescriptions of the day, turned around big medication delays faced by patients in a remote Eastern Bay of Plenty community
Rural nursing needs to be recognised as a career in its own right with the support of training and supervision, according to research highlighted at the National Rural Health Conference
Ōamaru Hospital is no longer relying on locums and has nine permanent doctors signed up, says Waitaki District Health Services Trust clinical director and former West Coast GP Stuart Mologne
General practices last year learned just how much public sector pay trends can affect them, when practice nurses walked off the job seeking pay parity with DHB colleagues
Gore’s two general practices are amongst the first practices in the country to be under way delivering COVID-19 vaccines to their enrolled patients as part of “business as usual”
Fewer than 1 per cent of people live more than a half-hour drive from a general practice, health geographer Jesse Whitehead found, in a study looking at equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccine