General practice leaders have counter-offered a 20-point recovery plan to Te Whatu Ora after formally rejecting the agency’s offer of a 5 per cent increase to capitation funding
Eleventh-hour negotiations on nurse pay disparity funding were continuing as general practice leaders and Te Whatu Ora tried to settle a contract and fair distribution system before 1 July
The two GPS at the heart of the recent vicarious liability case believed they were operating separate practices and held no formal partnership agreement, says Medical Protection Society’s UK medical director Rob Hendry
The chief medical officer at the Ministry of Health is still ‘Dr Joe’ to his patients in a low-cost kaupapa Māori health clinic. Joe Bourne talks to Fiona Cassie about his career path from London to Te Puke, as well as funding, family and football fandom
When a staffing crisis much worse than usual descended on a top-of-the-south general practice last year, it seemed to those left that they had no alternative but to devise a new way of working
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