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
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
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
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
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
Flu surveillance has returned at 60 sentinel general practices across the country to help ensure the country is not caught napping if influenza makes a return this winter
GP academic Carol Atmore is eager to bring the health reform’s locality networks into reality and sees her shift to work for a PHO as a “good place to start”
The speed of the health reforms depends on the sector’s trust in them, GPNZ chair Jeff Lowe stressed at the closing of yesterday’s GPNZ health reforms workshop in Christchurch