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RNZCGP president Sam Murton plans to press health minister Andrew Little for details on a GP workforce plan

RNZCGP president Sam Murton plans to press health minister Andrew Little for details on a GP workforce plan

The test case on a medical centre’s liability for a GP’s mistake was due to go before the Supreme Court on 24 March

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

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

A five-judge Supreme Court bench reserved its decision after a one-day hearing of an appeal against a medical centre’s vicarious liability for a GP’s prescribing error

A new monitoring report has found that while more patients with mental health needs are being seen in primary care, access to specialist services has remained largely static

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on a medical centre’s liability for the mistake of a GP

The surge of Omicron patients needing medical attention has led Green Cross Health to set up a virtual COVID-19 care service to help its inundated practices