Golden Bay, at the top of the South Island, has lost a specialist GP who had become part of the community after previously establishing a practice on the West Coast
Golden Bay, at the top of the South Island, has lost a specialist GP who had become part of the community after previously establishing a practice on the West Coast
General Practice Owners Association hopes the legal action it has begun against Te Whatu Ora under the Fair Trading Act will result in the establishment of fair contracts
Free GP consults have been revoked from some Māori and Pacific young people in Hawke’s Bay in the crackdown against pro-equity policies based on ethnicity by health minister Shane Reti and his Coalition Government
New Zealand parents may continue to be persuaded to buy infant formula containing probiotics and other ingredients without proper evidence now that the Government has pulled out of a trans-Tasman rules review, a neonatologist says
GenPro has released its lawyers’ letter that argues government unfairness at the heart of the general practice contracting and funding system will drive practices out of business and leave communities without local healthcare
Minimum West Coast patient waiting times regularly exceed a week for routine appointments at a Te Whatu Ora general practice, and the maximums are sometimes well over a month