Keira Stephenson meets a couple who set out in search of a rural general practice, found one in Kāwhia on the west coast of the North Island, and fell in love with their new home town
Dyslexia, academic failure, lack of self-esteem, weight issues – Peter Anyon Medal winner Martin Mikaere overcame them all to find his true vocation as a GP
Practice ownership is a moving feast. Corporates and PHOs are among those at the table, while GPs, the founders of the feast, remain prominent. Fiona Thomas scrutinises the menu of ownership changes of the past two years
Paramedic health assurance registration; New Counties Manukau DHB chief executive; Pay equity deal signed for mental health and addiction workers; Interrupting your patients - specialists are the worst; and the Southern primary maternity plan we're still waiting on...
Sonja Bodley is a GP with a special interest in skin cancer medicine and surgery. She mostly works in her own clinic at Ropata Specialist Centre in Lower Hutt, also doing some traditional GP work at Ropata Medical Centre and locum work at the Skin Institute Wellington
Auckland and Waitemata DHB districts have been the influenza hotspots in a time of unseasonably low flu and other respiratory virus activity, ESR reports
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