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Te Whatu Ora had a 13 per cent response rate in its initial survey of patients’ waiting times for planned care, out of a total of 20,339 people contacted nationally

An expert in traumatic brain injuries says changes made by ACC to referral processes are reducing the time injured patients wait for treatment

General Practitioners Aotearoa interim chair Buzz Burrell has described the Cabinet paper on the Government’s primary healthcare plans as “aspirational drivel”

A Cabinet paper discusses a work programme looking at how primary and community healthcare providers are funded, including settings for capitation funding

Limitations of treatments for depression have led to recent interest in the use of ketamine to treat the condition. But an editorial in the New Zealand Medical Journal urges caution against seeing the substance as a new quick fix

Te Whatu Ora chief executive Fepulea’i Margie Apa must be accountable for meeting a target to reduce the country’s elective surgery waiting lists

Laboratory testing provider Awanui/SCL Group is warning many of its collection centres will be closed in Wellington, the South Island and Hawke’s Bay from tomorrow

Te Whatu Ora’s waiting list review is expected to provide the agency with more detailed data on its waitlists and is a continuation of the work started by last year’s Planned Care Taskforce

The RNZCGP has accused the National Party of “political gamesmanship” over its plan to slash the number of people receiving free prescriptions to fund new cancer drugs

A GP’s failure to act on a patient’s CT scan results led to a delay of more than two-and-a-half years in her cancer diagnosis