Downplay deficits if you will, but they dominate DHB thinking just the same ASMS Attitudes towards deficits are a huge driver of behaviour by DHB leaders, at times appearing to assume greater importance than standards of patient care.
GP Jan White was asked by a patient to allow a false address to go forward with their hospital referral, so they could be treated sooner in a DHB with more capacity
GP Jan White was asked by a patient to allow a false address to go forward with their hospital referral, so they could be treated sooner in a DHB with more capacity
When the headline screamed out “Flesh eating bugs at Melbourne beach”, I was struck with a vision of sunbathers succumbing to necrotising fasciitis (or “fascists”, as my spellcheck would have it)
The Government comes up with a plan to test new ways to assist mentally ill people in the community, as part of its social investment spend of $100 million over four years
Southern DHB’s commissioners have publicly apologised to patients who are waiting too long for treatments, and say they are considering how to support primary care better to help keep people out of hospital
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