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Revenue and spending rose sharply because of the pandemic, according to Hawke’s Bay PHO’s annual report, which also canvasses the future of PHOs in the health reforms 

COVID-19 antiviral prescribing advice remains unchanged in New Zealand despite trial evidence that one of the medicines does not reduce hospital admissions or deaths 

The rollercoaster ride of politics has resurrected the Public Health Advisory Committee 

Steffan Crausaz, chief executive of Tāmaki Health since 2019, has left the company to move to Australia for family reasons

The first 10 iwi Māori partnership boards are up and running, according to Te Aka Whai Ora

A New Zealand study on complex patients has found they are concentrated in a relatively small number of practices 

A funding accountability regime is being devised to monitor primary care because Te Whatu Ora considers it’s getting poor-quality information from the sector 

Primary care leaders welcome the release of the Sapere capitation review and its findings of general practice underfunding, calling for the Government to urgently rectify the problems 

A new survey has found that the proportion of general practices whose books are closed to new enrolments has increased sharply since 2019 

National Party member Vanessa Weenink reckons having been a Labour Party member won’t harm her hopes of becoming the MP for Banks Peninsula in Canterbury