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Tim Stokes of the University of Otago has been funded to review alliance partnerships between DHBs and PHOs

The lack of a central list of providers and the contraceptive services they offer makes it hard for women to know where to go to get the contraception they need, says south Auckland GP Orna McGinn

Both a GP and the medical centre have failed a patient with persistent urinary tract symptoms by not referring her to a specialist 

Rural midwives feel their expertise is often overlooked by their urban colleagues, after having their decision making and skills questioned

Labour’s Chris Hipkins and National’s Shane Reti go head to head over how to grow the health workforce 

An elderly woman was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma two years  after a GP registrar failed to send her excised cyst for histology

A new Family Planning Survey finds more than 4 per cent of respondents have been refused contraception by a health professional who was “morally opposed” to providing it 

University of Otago PhD student Mariska Mannes is looking for more respondents to her research survey which aims to shed light on challenges faced by international doctors when they arrive in New Zealand 

From 14 to 19 September, New Zealanders marked Te Wiki o te Reo Māori in a variety of ways. New Zealand Doctor | Rata Aotearoa ran a competition in our 9 September issue inviting readers to email us using the subject line “Kia pai tō rā to” (Have a good day).

Ministry of Health chief nursing officer Margareth Broodkoorn is saying farewell to Wellington for a new position at the helm of the Hokianga Health Community Trust