Spike Milligan’s poem masterfully avoids rhyming diseases with sneezes. Would that we were able to masterfully avoid a few sneezes leading to the question, “Doctor, do I need a COVID-19 swab?”
This article shares some stories from the coalface and acknowledges the great work of health professionals who continued to immunise during the strangest of times
COVID-19 exposed people to the risk of severe unwellness and even death. However, the virus also exposed a number of weaknesses in the previous system’s belief that more, often overbearing, compliance would protect against the vagaries of Mother Nature’s directions
The disability sector has joined their Māori and Pacific healthcare counterparts in dismissing the ambition of the Health and Disability System Review’s final report
Restrict DHBs to hospital management and create integrated care organisations for primary and community care – Allan Moffitt’s alternative to the Simpson report
Resourceful implementation of the proposals in the Health and Disability System Review final report requires total commitment to new ideas, writes nurse educator BarbaraDocherty
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