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Localities, once announced in the reforms, were quickly seen as the panacea for health inequities, but they remain poorly defined, Dr Davidson says

Localities, once announced in the reforms, were quickly seen as the panacea for health inequities, but they remain poorly defined, Dr Davidson says

Health information systems business Patients First is being wound up after the Ministry of Health ended its $1.084 million contract last year

Green Cross has bought into its first practice in the Whanganui region and added another in the South Island, bringing its tally of fully or partially owned practices to 55 

Localities, once announced in the reforms, were quickly seen as the panacea for health inequities, but they remain poorly defined, Dr Davidson says

Green Cross Health has had a bumper financial year and bought into eight practices 

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

From early next week selected patients at risk of severe COVID-19 can access New Zealand’s first take-at-home medicine for the disease 

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