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National study of general practice records indicates nearly 20 per cent of cases of patient harm could have been prevented, including five deaths 

The adrenaline of another hard pandemic lockdown was dissipating, and practitioners were reporting their stories glad and glum, enthusiastic and resigned, innovative and frustrated.

A majority in general practice seem to be weathering the COVID-19 storm without major damage, but a significant minority face uncertainty or even cutbacks.

Since the Government revealed its health reform agenda more than four months ago, September was marked out as a major milestone – when the enabling legislation would be introduced to Parliament and the members of the new interim boards announced.

The owner of The Warehouse red shed budget stores has bought what it calls a cornerstone strategic stake in Zoom Health, an online pharmacy that offers free prescriptions and delivery.

SLUICE ROOMS AND other cleaning areas have proven in a study to be important locations of team-building and information-sharing in primary care.

Primary care told to include abdominal pain in screening patients for COVID-19 after Middlemore Hospital case 

Primary healthcare is experiencing a gradual return to normal business levels post-lockdown in the Queenstown lakes district  

The adrenaline of another hard pandemic lockdown was dissipating, and practitioners were reporting their stories glad and glum, enthusiastic and resigned, innovative and frustrated.

New supplier, new brand name, but epilepsy drug remains the same under Pharmac deal