Christchurch’s two biggest urgent care centres will continue to receive extra “sustainability” funding from Te Whatu Ora for 2024 to address cost pressures which saw centre hours cut last year
After nearly two years sitting empty, the medical centre space in the $14.7 million health hub at Rolleston in Canterbury will at last get a general practice tenant
Pegasus Health, the last of the “big four” PHO networks to enter general practice ownership, this week announced the purchase of Lincoln Medical Centre in league with local rūnanga
Christchurch’s two biggest urgent care centres will continue to receive extra “sustainability” funding from Te Whatu Ora for 2024 to address cost pressures which saw centre hours cut last year
The launch this summer of the rural after-hours Ka Ora Telecare service was a welcome relief to Ashburton’s stretched practices, says Eastfield Health business manager Tony Dann
Christchurch’s 24 Hour Surgery will be truly 24 hours again from 28 January, after filling the nursing vacancies that forced the urgent-care centre to cancel most graveyard shifts since September
Canterbury GPs say closing the pay gap with secondary peers and reducing the administration burden are some steps that may stop stressed doctors leaving general practice
Thousands of medical history items from sutures to speculums and the country’s first ECT machine could soon be homeless. Fiona Cassie visits Christchurch’s Cotter Medical History Museum
Te Whatu Ora will meet the country’s biggest private lab services providers on 20 December to discuss the growing pay gap between public and private laboratory workers
Thousands of medical history items from sutures to speculums and the country’s first ECT machine could soon be homeless. Fiona Cassie visits Christchurch’s Cotter Medical History Museum
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