Government support – or lack of it – and health minister Simeon Brown’s suggestion that underfunding is fake news are the biggest issues stirring debate this month. Martin Johnston reports
More than a dozen corporate-owned practices have started the process of quitting the Western Bay of Plenty PHO, with wider hopes of quitting the PHO system entirely
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
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
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
After the departure of top government health officials last week, health minister Simeon Brown has shifted focus this week – responding to a patient’s medical crisis and unmasking a new little bureaucracy
A score of practices are angling to quit the PHO system and want direct government contracts instead, raising questions about what the policy is and the effect on population health schemes and after-hours rosters
Health minister Simeon Brown is again having to deal with a high-profile resignation, this time his top health advisor, Diana Sarfati, the director-general of health
