I recently made a house call to a 96-year-old patient who was too scared to leave his house for fear of catching COVID-19 but equally scared of catching influenza without his annual flu shot, which I gave him
Primary health negotiators will find out on Tuesday what share of the DHBs’ nine percent Budget funding increase will be passed on to general practices
Rural health practitioners are dismayed by the lack of any type of primary care funding in the annual Budget, announced last week, says Fiona Bolden, chair of the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network
Once again primary care has played Budget bridesmaid to DHBs but RNZCGP president Samantha Murton lives in hope GPs will get thrown a financial bouquet
Closed borders, unemployed tourism workers and the lockdown downturn have hit Queenstown Medical Centre with a “triple whammy”, says the practice’s chief executive Ashley Light
No one at Pegasus will be falling on their sword after a damning independent review revealed a catalogue of failures in developing the PHO’s failed Sirius PMS
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