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The Government’s flagship expansion of mental health and addiction services in primary care has slowed down, leading to concerns it will not be able to achieve some of its aims

To encourage hesitant patients to accept COVID-19 vaccination, GPs have been urged to focus on feelings first. Leave the facts until later

The Government’s flagship expansion of mental health and addiction services in primary care has slowed down, leading to concerns it will not be able to achieve some of its aims

Stephen Child, of health insurer Southern Cross, is questioning the huge range of private specialist fees for procedures, faced by patients and their insurers

General practices are being warned to rectify poor ventilation, now that COVID-19 is known to spread easily as aerosol particles

Psychiatrist Selwyn Leeks should have been prevented from prac­tising in 1977, the Medical Coun­cil says, as part of its apology to victims of Dr Leeks’ unmodified paediatric elec­troconvulsive therapy.

COVID-19 set in motion health­care changes in the eastern Bay of Plenty that have been wel­comed by rural patients and won the providers an award.

Child immunisation rates have failed to recover following the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, amid increasing evidence of vaccine hesitancy, particularly among Māori whānau. 

General practice owners have won the right to a hearing on how they remain unpaid for the reports they must write to coroners investigating deaths

Dental public health specialist Rob Beaglehole has taken on a new role for DHBs to seek a sugar industry levy, a policy rejected by governments dating back to Helen Clark’s