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Researchers plan to pin down the amount of work hospitals have shipped out to general practice.

The HDC’s finding of vicarious liability against a medical centre is bad for doctors and patients, says NZMA chair Alistair Humphrey 

A judge has thrown out an HDC opinion that held a healthcare centre liable for the misdeeds of one of its doctors 

The precedent-setting nature of a Court of Appeal decision means it is likely to go to the Supreme Court, a lawyer says 

A medical centre and GP partner hope to appeal in the Supreme Court against a third legal finding that the clinic is vicariously liable for the mistake of the other partner 

Assessment for a second serious lung illness has been added to New Zealand’s first lung cancer screening trial programme 

Public health specialist calls for COVID vaccination festivals driven by Māori and Pacific communities, and more general practice involvement

The staff of five iwi-owned Wel­lington clinics that collectively were the site of New Zealand’s first GP strike, will be given a degree of leeway to set their own pay

Eighteen deaths following COVID-19 vaccination have been reported, but none has been linked to the vaccine, Medsafe says in its latest Safety Report on the vaccination programme 

An unspecified number of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been discarded because leaky syringes meant the doses might not have induced disease protection