With COVID making its impact on the New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa team, southern correspondent Fiona Cassie was our sole reporter at this year’s South GP CME
Growing a local Māori primary health workforce is being given a financial helping hand in hard-to-staff Northland with an “earn as you learn” scheme for would-be enrolled nurses
The first nurse practitioner to become a general practice co-owner within the Green Cross network has a vision of primary care in which nurses have a much stronger presence. Maia Hall reports
Alex McLeod is from Wairarapa. Kōtarani, Ingarihi, Werehi, ko Ngāti Kahungunu ona tīpuna (Scottish, English, Welsh and Ngāti Kahungunu are his ancestors). A rural generalist, he worked as a rural hospital doctor in Taupō until last summer. He now lives at Harataunga/Kennedy Bay, over a steep, hilly road from where he works at Coromandel Family Health Centre
There are many cherished memories of a Hong Kong-trained specialist GP who helped found an early integrated health centre, writes Natasha Jojoa Burling
GP registrars are the future of general practice, and New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa wants to hear from them. We asked Dinesha Kumarawansa 10 questions about general practice, medical school and what excites her about her career ahead
More than 22,000 courses of Paxlovid have been dispensed since the novel COVID-19 antiviral became available five months ago, according to Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand
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