The reforms were never expected to change health overnight, but too much of the change is being planned behind the scenes and without general practice input, writes Jeff Lowe
A dispute over the upskilling of community pharmacists for new roles in general practice has broken out, just as Te Whatu Ora prepares to usher in more of them, reports Ruth Brown
The ground has been broken at Ormiston Hospital in Flat Bush, southeast Auckland, where Vital Healthcare Property Trust is nearly doubling the size of the 5000sqm facility
Finishing the capitation review and after-hours funding frameworks are among 30-plus items on the Te Whatu Ora’s Early Actions Programme "to do" list for primary care
I’m a GP registrar and I have been offered work as a contractor for next year. I’m not sure whether being a contractor is the correct option for me and wonder if I should be an employee. Can you please explain the difference?
A phone call from an “incandescent” rural doctor about being “shafted again” led to a rural general practice activist group going national 30 years ago
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