A study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today endorses a new scheme that allows many patients with blood in the urine to avoid invasive investigation
Failures in care that allowed a severely depressed man to jump from the roof of Christchurch DHB’s high-care facility constitute a breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights, says mental health commissioner Kevin Allan
The number of babies and toddlers hospitalised with respiratory infections at Middlemore Hospital this winter plummeted from the usual 1000 to fewer than 200
Christchurch GP Dame Sue Bagshaw’s planned Youth Hub gained consent this week after a resource consent battle with neighbours over the large, one-stop youth housing and services project
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management