A pay equity bill before Parliament this week will make it harder, not easier, for women to bring equal pay claims, both the nurses and senior doctors unions say.
Health minister Jonathan Coleman and Labour’s health spokesperson David Clark are set to go head to head during the NZMA session at this year’s South GP CME in Christchurch.
GP Richard McCubbin’s campaign trail as Kaikoura’s Green Party candidate begins in earnest today and he admits more spade work may be required, following the party’s machinations in recent days.
Back when mobile surgical services were just a twinkle in urologist Stu Gowland's eye, he was weathering one of the biggest stoushes in New Zealand health sector history
It started with the words "devolution" and "integrated family health centres" in the National Party's pre-election health manifesto: Better, Sooner, More Convenient. Then, at the start of this year, health minister Tony Ryall instructed DHBs to start planning to begin transferring some secondary services to primary care, at no cost to patients
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