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Primary care has been assured funding of COVID-19 care in the community will continue until June 

Primary care, where extra staff have been taken on for COVID-19 community care, wants certainty and advance warning on funding cuts to this programme

Discovery of an ancient hydatid cyst in a Whanganui famer’s spleen has prompted a warning to watch for the rare parasitic tapeworm disease

Te Whatu Ora should take on the employment of GP trainees, according to the report that underpins the Government’s new efforts to improve the training and make it attractive to many more doctors

The national shortage of GPs is biting down hard. Martin Johnston reports on an effort under way in rural Taranaki to stabilise and develop general practice

Cooperative model for after-hours cover losing traction

Fepulea’i Margie Apa, the first Pacific person to head New Zealand’s health service, grew up in south Auckland at a time of social and economic upheaval

Health minister Andrew Little has delivered a double dose of criticism of primary healthcare and defended his call for new business models 

In the countdown to next year’s election, MPs can expect to hear more from health advocates door-knocking, emailing and generally twisting MPs’ arms to fix problems.
 

A new Safety Report from Medsafe reports what appears to be a new, fourth death from myocarditis potentially caused by the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine