The national shortage of GPs is biting down hard. Martin Johnston reports on an effort under way in rural Taranaki to stabilise and develop general practice
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
Abdominal pain was the number one symptom reported in the million calls made to Healthline in the three years to November 2019, with about 44 calls a day made for this reason
Community Services Card holders make up about 20 per cent of patients using an after-hours video-doctor service offered by 130 general practices, the National Rural Health Conference was told
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