Rose Laing, part-time GP and clinical lead for collaborative care (shared care planning) for Canterbury Clinical Network, ponders the complex demands on practices as secondary care seeks to shift services into primary care
Northland DHB is turning to the Government for funds, after an iwi organisation decided it could not go ahead with building an integrated, whanau ora wellness centre in Kawakawa.
Beyond a pre-election promise to make hundreds of thousands more people entitled to a decent-sized GP fee subsidy, National’s health spokesperson Jonathan Coleman appears unconvinced by GP calls for a deeper review of primary care funding
DHB wants to ensure Bay of Islands Hospital at Kawakawa gets a healthcare home, despite the iwi trust dropping its designs for a health and wellness one-stop shop
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