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A Christchurch specialist is calling for car­diovascular risk assessment to include an additional blood test, after he and a col­league demonstrated a link to stiffening of arteries and other problems

Staff of Waimate Medical Centre and Oaktree Medical Centre at the statue of Margaret Cruickshank, New Zealand’s first fe­male GP. Dr Cruickshank’s image also features on the painted silos seen behind

National Bowel Screening Programme start dates uncertain for seven DHBs while ministry completes reassessment 

Joe Williams – GP, medical administrator, health minister and prime minister – is the only practising health professional to have died from COVID-19-related illness in New Zealand 

With demand for colonoscopies unmet and growing in the public sector, the owners of a new private clinic hope to get a slice of the funding action 

COVID survey reveals symptoms not initially disclosed, continuing questions over financial viability, huge workloads, chronic-care visits down 

Director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield acts on GP leaders’ advice to get better primary care advice after communications mess over testing  

Hospitals get green light for COVID-19 clinical trials using donor plasma from recovered cases in those sick on wards and in ICUs   

Staff of Ngāti Porou Hauora PHO on the East Coast saw people’s mental health suffer in the COVID-19 lockdown between March and May 

Cardiovascular risk prediction guru Rod Jackson hits back at 'seriously flawed’ studies used to criticise his system