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Health workers who take secondary employment related to COVID-19 should tell their main employer, who can withhold approval if there are reasonable health and safety grounds, a union says 

Auckland’s DHBs are citing an audit as vindication of their decision to withhold a portion of money claimed by general practices for COVID-19 work 

Auckland’s new COVID-19 regime provides sufficient testing capacity, but problems remain over payments to general practice, a PHO leader says

Members of GenPro and General Practice New Zealand are being consulted as the two advocacy groups seek to define their positions in preparation for lobbying the Government on general practice funding and sustainability 

Medicinal cannabis company Eqalis has called for the marijuana referendum to be delayed

GP leaders are calling for the vocationally registered majority of doctors in general practice to highlight their specialist qualification

Minister wants chair of system review panel Heather Simpson involved in implementing its recommendations 

More than a quarter of close contacts of COVID-19 cases assigned to specialist national agency slipped through the net 

No reduction in DHBs, no Māori Health Authority, and some changes to primary care funding –National MP Shane Reti outlines his policy list, should he become health minister

GP leaders are calling for the vocationally registered majority of doctors in general practice to highlight their specialist qualification