Pharmac – Te Pātaka Whaioranga is funding testosterone gel without restrictions as an additional testosterone treatment for anyone who needs it from 1 April 2024
A funding injection is needed to stop Dunedin’s dedicated urgent-care centre being forced to cut services, with a negative flow-on impact to local GPs, says Dunedin Urgent Doctors and Accident Centre manager Adam O’Byrne
After being in limbo for over 18 months, the general practice sector’s only official forum for contract talks with funder Te Whatu Ora may kick-start again in late February
Summer brings long, lazy days for many, but there’s still news to be found. As we left the office on 14 December, media releases continued arriving in our inboxes. Editor Barbara Fountain trawls through the offerings to find the news happening while we were out
If the Government wants to boost childhood vaccination rates, it should adequately fund general practices to do so, argue GP leaders in the wake of a move to allow pharmacies to immunise infants
After being in limbo for over 18 months, the general practice sector’s only official forum for contract talks with funder Te Whatu Ora may kick-start again in late February
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners supports research and education that benefits general practice, rural general practice and rural hospital medicine through three funding rounds each year
The crisis points of workforce shortages, inadequate funding and increasing workload have brought general practice to a “tipping point”, says General Practice Aotearoa
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