GP registrars are the future of general practice, and New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa wants to hear from them. We asked Steve Grimson 11 questions about general practice, medical school and what excites him about his career ahead
Today’s planned walk-out of essential general practice nurses is the direct result of the continued underfunding of general practice by successive governments and the repeated failure to provide funding to address the significant pay disparities between general practice nurses and their comparable hospital-based counterparts
A national set of rules to clarify who has the responsibility to chase up test results ordered in hospi- tals is expected to be in place before Christmas
Rebel prescriber Tony Hanne has been working around dysfunctional regulation, just as general practices have been changing hands as a response to vulnerability. Editor Barbara Fountain ponders the impact of ‘fixes’
Our updated general practice ownership map reflects a surge in GPs selling to corporate and other networks, but, at the same time, some GPs are keeping skin in the game. Fiona Cassie reports
Purchases by corporate and other ownership networks have stepped up in the past 18 months with more than 40 medical centres going fully or partially into network ownership. That is about three times the number of transactions that went through in the 2020 calendar year
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