Te Whatu Ora national director commissioning Abbe Anderson has highlighted “challenges of the short-term funding environment” and says she has no room to move beyond a 5 per cent capitation increase
The time following a declined assisted dying application is one of heightened mental health risk, says psychiatrist and University of Auckland senior lecturer Gary Cheung
Overseas GP recruiters are reporting steady and slow pipeline interest in GPs coming here but no post-pandemic surge to match the high vacancies and demand from general practices
David Bratt stands below a giant screen showing a fictional advert, signed off by a “desperate GP”, and asks: “You want to believe that we in general practice are going to hell in a handcart, but are we?”
The number of claims processed by ACC’s Concussion Services team has surged 62 per cent since 2019, with the agency paying out on 14,758 concussion-related claims through the team in the year to June
ACC has develpoed new guidelines and promotional material on its Recovery at Work scheme, aiming to make it easier for doctors to assess injured patients
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