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PHO chief executives can expect tough questions from their former peer Simon Royal as he slides his feet under the table of his new job at an iwi Māori partnership board

Change is a constant at Te Whatu Ora. Martin Johnston reviews efforts to cut staff numbers in line with government directives

Martin Johnston takes a closer look at a recent coroner’s decision and its lessons for telehealth providers

High-needs patients in the back blocks of Te Tau Ihu, the top of the South Island, are being reconnected with general practices through the painstaking efforts of a Comprehensive Primary Care Team

An advisory group in the Kāpiti area of the lower North Island has released a paper supporting its push for a publicly provided integrated health centre in Paraparaumu 

New Zealand’s health system has come fourth in a ranking of 10 countries by US-based think tank the Commonwealth Fund 

GenPro is challenging the way increases in patient fees are reviewed, a process it say asks practices to reveal confidential revenue streams and potentially induces them to breach competition law

Journalist Martin Johnston finds a plan by Te Whatu Ora to get more GP trainees into Māori, Pacific and rural practices failed to consider the perverse incentives it would create; the RNZCGP objected

Never has a flat white tasted so sour as when a fees review committee was said to have urged a practice to set up a café to make some money

Journalist Martin Johnston finds a plan by Te Whatu Ora to get more GP trainees into Māori, Pacific and rural practices failed to consider the perverse incentives it would create; the RNZCGP objected