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After the departure of top government health officials last week, health minister Simeon Brown has shifted focus this week – responding to a patient’s medical crisis and unmasking a new little bureaucracy  

A score of practices are angling to quit the PHO system and want direct government contracts instead, raising questions about what the policy is and the effect on population health schemes and after-hours rosters  

Health minister Simeon Brown is again having to deal with a high-profile resignation, this time his top health advisor, Diana Sarfati, the director-general of health 

The General Practice NZ roadshow of primary care is in Gisborne today and rolls through Christchurch and North Canterbury tomorrow 

In support of his view that talk of health system underfunding is fake news, the health minister has cited a Ministry of Health response to an NZMJ editorial 

The hunt is on for the truth as primary care leaders seek to expose fakeness in ‘fake news’ claims over underfunding and understaffing  

It’s been another week of relentless focus for health minister Simeon Brown – visiting facilities, mining the mountain of briefings, and getting to grips with primary care funding 

Cathy O’Malley has retired after three decades in the senior ranks of health administrators. She recounts some highlights to Martin Johnston, and reveals her concerns for the current state of primary care

What a week, and what a lot of focus, focus, focus. Simeon Brown must be just loving it in Shane Reti’s old chair

Plans for the new Dunedin Hospital appear to have veered back towards where they were heading before the Coalition Government last year stymied them