Health Minister Shane Reti has tried to calm the storm of reaction to comments on telehealth, physiotherapy and general practice created by comments from a senior Te Whatu Ora official
Doug Hill is a specialist GP in Dunedin. Like many, he is worried about the endgame for general practice. He provides some reminders of how far general practice has come and is left wondering why it now finds itself at a crisis point
Non-registered health workers without a common provider number will not have access to patient data when the first stage of the multi-million-dollar Hira programme goes live on 1 July
The primary healthcare sector needs a funding boost of between $353 million and $1.36 billion to address unmet need, according to a Te Whatu Ora aide-mémoire to the minister of health from January this year
Health Minister Shane Reti has tried to calm the storm of reaction to comments on telehealth, physiotherapy and general practice created by comments from a senior Te Whatu Ora official
Practice nurse pay talks are due to get under way soon, but the pay equity claim adds another layer of complexity to the process, as Fiona Cassie reports
Carefirst, a GP-owned New Plymouth practice group with a “grow your own” GP policy, is about to open its fourth practice, a start-up, in an underserved town just north of the city
A pro-choice, pro-science, pro-vaccine, proud mother and oenophile – that’s wine lover – is how freshly retired specialist GP Pippa MacKay sums herself up in her ‘X’ bio. During their chat on Dr MacKay’s last day of practising medicine, Fiona Cassie finds out the former New Zealand Medical Association chair forgot to add ‘political junkie’
Complaints to the office of the Health and Disability Commissioner have surged by 40 per cent in the past three to four years, according to health and disability commissioner Morag McDowell, leaving the agency struggling to keep up with demand
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