An Auckland psychiatrist is supporting specialist GP Tony Hanne’s decision to issue ADHD prescriptions in his own name, regardless of regulations that such actions required specialist support
Specialist GP Tony Hanne has accepted three of five particulars of a wider charge of professional misconduct being made against him by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal
Tony Hanne today told the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal hearing into his prescribing practice that for many of his ADHD patients “I was their last hope of getting care”
Day three of a Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal hearing into specialist GP Tony Hanne saw Meadowbank GP David Henry criticising his colleague’s practice while accepting he had been in a “dilemma”
The new act requiring ACC to cover more injuries to mothers during labour and birth does not go far enough, says University of Otago senior law lecturer Simon Connell
A pharmacy technician mistakenly used an unlabelled bottle that contained methadone to prepare a newborn baby’s omeprazole prescription, deputy health and disability commissioner Vanessa Caldwell has found
Twenty-one years of pushing for changes to the Special Authority criteria without any response must have been “incredibly frustrating”, says Pharmac chief medical officer David Hughes
I’m a GP registrar and I have been offered work as a contractor for next year. I’m not sure whether being a contractor is the correct option for me and wonder if I should be an employee. Can you please explain the difference?
Right to needs-based healthcare services is not absolute. Thousands of people have experienced delays in care, so what would constitute a ‘reasonable’ complaint about such delay? Ben Gray suggests taking a pragmatic response
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