There have been significant changes in access to mental health and addiction over the past five years a monitoring report released today by Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission shows
Doug Hill is a specialist GP in Dunedin. Like many, he is worried about the endgame for general practice. He provides some reminders of how far general practice has come and is left wondering why it now finds itself at a crisis point
The Government’s disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora was a “brazen expression of colonial power”, says a viewpoint published in the latest New Zealand Medical Journal
Doug Hill is a specialist GP in Dunedin. Like many, he is worried about the endgame for general practice. He provides some reminders of how far general practice has come and is left wondering why it now finds itself at a crisis point
More cryptosporidiosis outbreaks could be on the cards for New Zealand as extreme rainfall events become more frequent, causing higher levels of the diarrhoea-causing parasite to be washed into waterways, public health researchers warn
Health experts are warning Kiwis to be vigilant this winter with new data showing hospital admissions in Auckland for acute respiratory diseases are up 13% on the same time last year.[1]
For years, our rural healthcare workforce has known intuitively that those in rural areas have poorer health outcomes than those in urban areas, but there has been no clear data to show this
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