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Director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield will finish up at the Ministry of Health at the end of July

The new COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid has arrived in New Zealand

Two NZMA board members have been returned for another term in an uncontested election

A finding of vicarious liability against a medical centre can be used to get it to make system changes that improve patient safety, a lawyer has told a virtual hearing of the Supreme Court

Four designated primary care clinics in Auckland managed 687 referrals in their first month of receiving patients from Omicron-overloaded emergency departments

The Green Cross Medical division has expanded its footprint in Wellington and the South Island and taken a first step into Whanganui

First there was Tend with $15 million to spend on buying practices

GPs’ frowing familiarity with telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic is credited with helping to quadruple their rate of lab-test electronic ordering in Auckland

More than 230,000 people have received their flu shot since the annual vaccination campaign began on 1 April  

Three myocarditis deaths have now been potentially linked to immunisation with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine