The nurses’ union doesn’t want general practices to fall over, NZNO spokesperson Glenda Alexander told a webinar, in response to hearing practices are frightened that an unfunded nurse pay equity claim will see them go under
Fair pay, Funding reform and additional workforce are urgently needed to get healthcare out of crisis, the incoming health minister Shane Reti has been repeatedly told in briefings by sector organisations
After nearly two years sitting empty, the medical centre space in the $14.7 million health hub at Rolleston in Canterbury will at last get a general practice tenant
Deputy health and disability commissioner Deborah James says a doctor was ultimately responsible for allowing an unqualified employee to administer Botox injections to a woman who suffered adverse side effects
Aged care commissioner Carolyn Cooper says a medical centre’s failure to monitor a man's prostate cancer adequately breached the code and may have prevented the early detection of a pancreatic tumour
Fair pay for all members of the general practice team, along with urgent funding reform, are some solutions to the current crisis outlined in three sector briefings to new health minister Shane Reti
A little over half of 54 practices that were proposed to move from their existing PHO to the National Hauora Coalition have been permitted to shift, in a ruling from Te Whatu Ora
Health authorities have highlighted in briefings to new health minister Shane Reti several critical issues that need to be addressed urgently in general practice, including capitation
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