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Te Whatu Ora is close to revealing how primary and community care is to be commissioned and by whom. Martin Johnston peeps behind the closed doors

Te Whatu Ora has apologised to a New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa journalist, as advised by chief ombudsman Peter Boshier, for a delay in releasing a paper on pay parity

Attendances at Palmerston North Hospital’s emergency department increased in the weeks after The Palms Medical Centre in the city withdrew from the Urgent Care Clinic Contract with ACC

Pharmac will hire an external minder of its Ps and Qs after the agency’s staff were revealed under privacy law to have written derogatory emails about journalist and medicines access advocate Rachel Smalley

Blenheim GP specialist Ros Gellatly has reinvented herself by shortening her hours and adopting complementary therapies after burnout nearly ended her long medical career

Former RNZCGP employees want to provide information confidentially to an independent party as part of a college probe aimed at improving staff turnover rates

Te Whatu Ora is close to revealing how primary and community care is to be commissioned and by whom. Martin Johnston peeps behind the closed doors

An increase in the doctor-to-patient ratio, a more modest rise in the number of specialist GPs, and women doctors making up most of the workforce by 2025 are the latest trends reported by the Medical Council

The RNZCGP has reported a reduced surplus for the year to 31 March of $116,000, compared with $2.006 million in 2021 and $924,000 last year

Telehealth GP service Practice Plus is providing medical care for unenrolled patients in Masterton after the Wairarapa town’s three general practices all had closed books