Through the winter of 2023, with a tiny group of dedicated colleagues, the New Zealand Society for Mountain Medicine organised and ran a six-week elective in mountain and wilderness medicine for 15 medical students in the South Island
A new $20m infrastructure investment is set to boost access to healthcare services for the population of one of the South Island’s fastest-growing towns
A new round of lab strikes is being felt by GPs in the South Island as Awanui/SCL Group operates its laboratories under reduced hours, or closes them altogether during the industrial action
Urgent care’s precarious state continues in Christchurch with another clinic cutting hours and Te Whatu Ora offering temporary top-up funding to all three of the city’s clinics
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