Some general practices grappling with a slump in consultations are filling the gap by hitting the phones and contacting at-risk and high-needs patients
With 20 cruise ships visiting Stewart Island this summer, the island’s only resident health professional had a watchful and wary start to the COVID-19 lockdown
Delivering healthcare to the isolated Chatham Islands is never simple but the pandemic has added extra stress and complications, says Chatham Islands Health Centre clinical nurse manager Sally Lanauze
In the first days of lockdown, practices’ daily cash flow dropped by an estimated 80 per cent as in-person consults plummeted and virtual consults relied on patients paying online
A day in the life of this rural health nurse started much earlier than usual; I had decided to visit one of the mothers in the Well Child service who lives at the top of my valley
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