On home visits, enrolled nurse Maudie Paul-Palmer takes cervical-cancer smears or changes wound dressings and, on one memorable occasion, she took a patient’s blood pressure in a pizza parlour. Fiona Cassie reports on a pioneer of the enrolled-nurse role in general practice
Medical students are being offered $200,000 for six months’ work in Australia once they graduate, says a student who is feeling tempted to take up the offer
The outreach efforts of Auckland health workers enabled New Zealanders to celebrate Christmas last year with a semblance of normality during the COVID-19 Delta outbreak
Practices report the Government-funded Access and Choice primary mental health scheme relieves pressure on GPs, fills gaps in patient care and reduces referrals to a PHO brief intervention service, a researcher says
Telehealth can support greater equity as long as patients are provided choice and can get to know their clinician, telehealth advocate and specialist GP Janine Bycroft says
Failure of an emergency department doctor and general practice staff to follow up on a critical radiology finding, lost a woman the chance of early diagnosis of the cancer that killed her
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