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Health workers and patients are advised to watch for heart-inflammation symptoms following vaccination with the Pfizer COVID-19 jab 

The Government’s health reform planners have been clocking up plenty of time in the sector, explaining the new direction and soaking up feedback

There is unconfirmed talk of New Zealand’s largest private provider of primary healthcare, Tāmaki Health, being up for sale

The newly approved, single-dose Janssen vaccine could play an important back-up role in New Zealand’s COVID-19 immunisation programme, says immunisation expert Nikki Turner

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

Health minister Andrew Little has not displayed any great concern over the failure of Canterbury DHB’s 2020/21 annual plan to receive his approval 

General Practice New Zealand will research the extent of workload shifted from hospitals to general practice 

A senior DHB official says primary care involvement in the COVID-19 vaccination programme is gathering momentum 

The Ministry of Health estimates that less than half of people who apply for assisted dying services will actually go through the process of being assisted to die 

Bureaucratic hurdles knocked down, opening way for more primary care clinics to offer COVI19 vaccinations