The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is celebrating the 10 newest specialist rural hospital doctors who were awarded Fellowship of the Division of Rural Hospital Medicine (DRHM) over the course of 2023
Every hour a GP spends face-to-face with patients generates at least 30 minutes of clinical follow-up work, a ground-breaking GP diary study by the RNZCGP has confirmed
The well-documented workforce shortages have meant that specialist GPs and rural hospital doctors are having to take on more work and work longer hours
The RNZCGP is criticising a Te Whatu Ora media release for being misleading about NP and GP scopes, but nurse leaders say the rebuke is a distraction to more significant issues facing health
Practices may rethink whether they can afford to carry on with immunisation monitoring and recalls if parents opt to go to community pharmacies for infant vaccinations, says an RNZCGP submission
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has opened applications for doctors wanting to specialise in general practice (GPEP) and/or rural hospital medicine (RHM), starting in January 2025
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