The Board of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has announced that the College will not proceed with its registrars’ first year clinical exams that were planned to commence at the end of February 2022
The RNZCGP has questioned the quantity of COVID-19 community antivirals on order by Pharmac, drugs which now seem unlikely to arrive until well into an Omicron wave
Pharmac has signed deals to supply 120,000 courses of antivirals to community patients, but with Omicron cases likely to surge ahead of Delta, the RNZCGP questions whether that is enough
Suzanne Pitama (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Whare) has been appointed dean and head of campus at the University of Otago, Christchurch. The former director of the Māori Indigenous Health Institute, and associate dean Māori at the campus, Professor Pitama is the first Māori female dean of any Otago Medical School campus
The Medical Council is aware of concerns raised by Newshub about an anti-vax Kaiapoi GP and considering them in its role of “protecting the health and safety of New Zealanders”
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