It truly was a race against time as I tumbled my way through 20 PowerPoint slides at the rate of 20 seconds per slide. I was new to the discipline of PechaKucha – the art of the seven-minute slide presentation – before I tackled one at the recent National Rural Health Conference
Scrapping patient copayments is one of the options being put to the Government next by the Health and Disability Review Transi¬tion Unit, says the unit’s deputy head, Martin Hefford
The National Party has softened its opposition to the Government’s proposed Māori Health Authority, but not to what it calls a dual health system based on ethnicity
Members of the New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa team work through the official documents to find out what we know about the proposed health sector changes and talk to folk in the sector about what’s happening
HEALTH MINISTER Andrew Little has given a generalised reassurance that the care New Zealanders rely on “will still be available”, including from GPs, local pharmacists, midwives, hospitals and specialists
Rural health is largely missing from official documents and speeches on the health reforms, which are instead described with rhetoric on communities and locality networks
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