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A financial decline has been halted at Kaipara Medical Centre in the 11 months since it was bought by ProCare Health. It is the first practice to be picked up by the Auckland network in its transition ownership scheme

General Practice leader Tim Malloy wants a rethink of the health improvement practitioner (HIP) scheme, saying the costs are not fully covered 

Health sliced and diced differently in new Cabinet line-up: Andrew Little, the boss; Chris Hipkins, Mr COVID; Ayesha Verrall, public health; Peeni Henare, Māori health; Aupito William Sio, Pacific health 

The GenPro board is likely to consider gender, ethnicity and other factors when deciding whether to appoint extra members, after no Māori, and only one woman, were elected 

A general practice survey has found the strain of COVID-19 is waning, but problems remain with access to personal protective equipment, plus a range of telehealth issues 

ProCare and Southern Cross reveal brief details of their planned entry to the virtual healthcare market 

ProCare Health is moving to smaller premises, partly to cash in on the pandemic-fuelled trend of more work being done from home

Many of the refugees on the books at GP Bryan Betty’s clinic in Cannons Creek, Porirua, are traumatised by the horrors they have fled

DHB deficits have swelled to more than $874 million under the influence of the pandemic and holiday pay mistakes, and could go higher yet

NZMA chair Kate Baddock has apologised to members after earlier defending the association’s opposition to legalising recreational cannabis