Former PHO chief and now public health boss Vince Barry turns out to have been in agreement with the decision-makers over saying “no” to McDonald’s burgers and fries in Wānaka
Opening a new general practice in Blenheim has improved access to primary care for Marlborough residents, the region’s PHO records in its 2023/24 annual report
Fifteen practices are changing their PHO, including five in Canterbury in the Tāmaki Health group, according to official information obtained from Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora
The funding contract for the General Practice Education Programme has been settled, but bargaining to renew the collective employment agreement covering GPEP1 trainees employed by the RNZCGP is yet to start
Primary care leaders are unsurprisingly glad at the prospect of a significant new line of funding, but are equally wary of the potential pre-conditions that might be attached
A week without Simeon Brown’s officials quitting and without oral questions in Parliament has given the new health minister, although not the Government, a breather from negative health headlines
Within a few months, citizens of the deep south went from outrage at cuts to a longawaited new Dunedin Hospital under one health minister to puzzlement at revised bed numbers under another health minister. Martin Johnston takes a look
