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GenPro is challenging the way increases in patient fees are reviewed, a process it say asks practices to reveal confidential revenue streams and potentially induces them to breach competition law

Martin Johnston takes a closer look at a recent coroner’s decision and its lessons for telehealth providers

PHO chief executives can expect tough questions from their former peer Simon Royal as he slides his feet under the table of his new job at an iwi Māori partnership board

Change is a constant at Te Whatu Ora. Martin Johnston reviews efforts to cut staff numbers in line with government directives

Online health services directory Healthpoint has been acquired by an arm of Constellation Software Inc (CSI), a large, stock exchange-listed, international company based in Canada 

GPs are being urged to become fluent in mental health triage, if they aren’t already, as police prepare to scale back their involvement in mental health callouts 

OmniHealth has recruited new staff to address a GP shortage at one of its practices

Technology has “contributed to our overall success”, according to a practice update in the Cosine Primary Care Network Annual Report 2023

Australia wants to lure more specialist GPs from New Zealand, with a loosening of registration rules by the country’s health ministers 

Following public protests and the death of a resident, the sustainability of West Coast health services has been under scrutiny. Martin Johnston reports