The current financial environment is difficult for general practice. The lack of certainty over realistic capitation funding increases, the ongoing pay parity negotiations for nurses and the associated implications, and the constraints on increasing copayments, have all made our financial position challenging. Can you help?
Following previous articles on the Integrated Primary Mental Health and Addiction programme and its implementation in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland as Te Tumu Waiora, David Codyre, Sarah Andrews and Eli Kliejunas summarise findings from the first phase of programme enquiry
Painting a grim picture of practice life isn’t helping to attract new recruits, writes Mark Liddle, but how else to convey the sector’s tough times to the powers that be?
A GP breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights for inadequate management of a woman’s symptoms following a deep vein thrombosis diagnosis
Medical school deans want funding for new student places skewed towards institutions which follow the evidence on selecting entrants more likely to become a GP
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