The country’s one-year rural medical immersion programme will be increased by 10 extra student places in 2024 and a new programme will launch for a further dozen students in 2025
Te Whatu Ora needs to treat the health system as one and “stop robbing” primary care in order to staff its hospitals, says the agency’s own national commissioning director
Burned-out GPs need politicians to stop using health as a political football and to instead agree on solutions to the general practice crisis, leading GPs say
GPs keen to see urgent action on workforce and funding can now see a plan, but it’s a plan to do the policy work for a plan – and it has been slated. Changes can still be made in the short term but these will be in the existing funding settings, as Stephen Forbes reports
An outpouring of despair about the future of general practice in New Zealand, and an admission to the lure of higher Australian pay rates, has been unleashed by an official’s comments in a Te Whatu Ora webinar
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) welcomes Labour's commitment, announced on Monday, to grow the health workforce including a focus on training and recruitment
The Government has announced revised plans for a new, bigger pathology laboratory as part of the new $1.5 billion Dunedin Hospital project, prompting questions from the National Party
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