Provider networks grouped in localities are meant to be the organising principle for primary and community care in the Government’s reformed health system. But the decision-makers have not clarified what localities will be. Martin Johnston went looking for answers
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
Fully DHB-funded primary care for COVID cases and their household contacts for urgent non-COVID care has diverted nearly 700 patients from Auckland emergency departments in one month
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