Green Cross has bought into its first practice in the Whanganui region and added another in the South Island, bringing its tally of fully or partially owned practices to 55
The Medical Council has lost the case taken against it by a retired Taranaki radiologist and a Wellington-based specialist GP over COVID-19 vaccination
Provider networks grouped in localities are meant to be the organising principle for primary and community care in the Government’s reformed health system. But the decision-makers have not clarified what localities will be. Martin Johnston went looking for answers
Additional funding is vital to close the growing pay parity gap between practice and DHB nurses and to stop a practice nurse exodus, argues a joint employer and union briefing paper to the health minister
Fully DHB-funded primary care for COVID cases and their household contacts for urgent non-COVID care has diverted nearly 700 patients from Auckland emergency departments in one month
A draft report on the capitation funding formula is being reviewed and may be released in due course, says Health and Disability Review Transition Unit director Stephen McKernan
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