GP frustration with mental health services emerged again last week when an Auckland practice learned it could refer only a tiny number of patients for funded psychologists’ consultations for the whole of the next year
Beyond a pre-election promise to make hundreds of thousands more people entitled to a decent-sized GP fee subsidy, National’s health spokesperson Jonathan Coleman appears unconvinced by GP calls for a deeper review of primary care funding
The general election is on 23 September. The election campaign is starting to heat up and with mental health services, DHB deficits, elective surgery figures and GP fees all up for debate, health looks likely to be one of the key areas that will decide voters
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)
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.
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