A decision has been made to allow pharmacies to offer childhood immunisations, which will increase opportunities for whānau to access free immunisations in their communities
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
In a report issued today, Aged Care Commissioner Carolyn Cooper found a care home and a registered nurse breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for their care of a female resident
In a report released today, the Health and Disability Commissioner has found a GP breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for not following up with a patient he had referred for an ultrasound
The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a doctor breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failing to provide adequate information to a woman undergoing mesh surgery
Scientists are collecting environmental samples such as bird faeces in a research project aimed at understanding how and where avian influenza and other potentially devastating viruses could impact Aotearoa New Zealand as the highly infectious H5N1 spreads globally
Today, health workers in Canterbury Waitaha are protesting the ongoing, almost eight-year delay in the payment of their holiday pay and other leave owed to them
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