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The National Hauora Coalition has closed its Hamilton and Auckland offices today for Matariki, which will from next June be marked by an annual public holiday 

A general practice co-owner says COVID vaccination clinics in primary care have been asked to slow their vaccination rates to “make it last” through the vaccine short-supply period

As the Wellington infection scare plays out, epidemiologist Michael Baker is calling for scanning with the COVID Tracer app to be made compulsory in high-risk places 

The Government's health-reform planners are on the lookout for primary and community care networks to become prototypes for the new system to be based on localities

I used to fancy the idea of skiing Teds Alley. I loved the name, such a yeah-nah Kiwi moniker for the steep and committing gully beside the East Ridge of Mt Taranaki

Health minister Andrew Little had many kind words about the importance and centrality of general practice, but few new details of the health reforms emerged at the GP CME conference in Rotorua

University of Auckland professor of medicine Des Gorman has criticised the health reforms, especially the planned Māori Health Authority

Teaching is at the heart of what Samantha Murton does

DHB doctors are being encouraged to stop writing transfer letters to primary care with comments such as “GP to chase result”

NZMA chair Alistair Humphrey plans to spend more time advocating for the medical profession, having left his job at Canterbury DHB following an employment dispute