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Maintaining “business as usual” for midwifery services will become even more difficult with the rise of COVID-19 variant Omicron 

The New Zealand Rural General Practice Network says it is planning for the worst and hoping for the best when it comes to dealing with another year of COVID-19 uncertainty 

If you’re reading this, that probably means your break, like ours, has come to an end. Sorry

Words have always been my solace, but for the last two days I find myself empty, not knowing what to say, to my family, let alone to myself

Blacked-out pages on a briefing paper to health minister Andrew Little leaves many questions unanswered about progress being made on rural training hubs 

COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing have made big musical events a rarity, so arriving at Auckland’s Eden Park to watch Six60 on a Saturday night with 50,000 other people was an amazing, if not surreal, experience

Overwhelmed and honoured to receive the Peter Snow Memo¬rial Award, Kerikeri GP Gra¬hame Jelley had to cut his acceptance speech short to avoid becoming a “blubbering mess”

It was a family affair at the Rotorua GP CME for long-time attendee and Palmerston North GP John Geard, who was joined this year by grandson Ben Gilmore

I never expected to like Auckland. Well, correction: people told me I wouldn’t like Auckland, and I believed them

It was a hot October day when I arrived in Hāwera in late 2020. After meeting local independent GP Keith Blayney and iwi-owned practice Ngāti Ruanui Healthcare general manager Graham Young, my third and final stop for the day was the hospital on the other side of town