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PRIMARY CARE CHAMPION Martin Hefford is to stay with the Health and Disability Review Transition Unit, ending nine years at the helm of Tū Ora Compass Health PHO

Nurse practitioner Maria Kekus’ career in health has always been about making connections

Keriana Brooking’s year at the helm of Hawke’s Bay DHB has “flown past”

Amid fears of a COVID-19 resurgence, primary care is feeling prepared with help from the Ministry of Health who has “upped its game”, says general practice leader Michelle Te Kira

Conference convenor Peter Chapman-Smith says this week’s South GP CME will be a joyful occasion after last year’s “painful cancellation”. 

It took six years from 2001 for Afghanistan for any sense of peace, infrastructure and healthcare to come back, and that is now at risk, Auckland GP says 

Rural general practice leader Grant Davidson is concerned that the Ministry of Health will not renew funding for the popular pandemic-response locum service 

Ministry of Health funding for a pandemic-response rural roving locum service has ended but rural general practice leader Fiona Bolden is keen to see it continue 

A new training scheme is helping to address the weakness of career support that is contributing to chronic shortages of health practitioners in rural areas, an academic says 

Stretched services and limited resources are creating multiple difficul­ties for rural general practices in Taranaki trying to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine.