Nearly 20 general practices to date have picked up a new digital health service offering patients the choice to message, consult and pay their usual GP via their smartphone or one of the app’s locum doctors
The well-prepared High Street Health Hub, in Lower Hutt, managed to keep growing and merge with neighbouring Epuni Medical Centre during the COVID-19 lockdown
Teleconsultations may have reached their high-water mark during Alert Levels 4 and 3, but more than 50 per cent of patient consults remain remote well into Level 2
Although children under age two have traditionally been the primary focus of childhood immunisation coverage and targets, focus on older children is increasing, and general practice has important roles to play
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life, and most older people have been asked to physically distance for more than five weeks of level 4 and are still asked to do so
Teleconsultations may have reached their high-water mark during Alert Levels 4 and 3, but more than 50 per cent of patient consults remain remote well into Level 2
In an about-turn ESR is again recruiting sentinel practices to provide surveillance swabs of patients presenting with influenza-like illnesses this winter
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