Sixty per cent of urgent care doctors responding to a Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care survey say their clinics had to close during usual opening hours last year, largely due to staff shortages
Christchurch’s two biggest urgent care centres will continue to receive extra “sustainability” funding from Te Whatu Ora for 2024 to address cost pressures which saw centre hours cut last year
A funding injection is needed to stop Dunedin’s dedicated urgent-care centre being forced to cut services, with a negative flow-on impact to local GPs, says Dunedin Urgent Doctors and Accident Centre manager Adam O’Byrne
Christchurch’s two biggest urgent care centres will continue to receive extra “sustainability” funding from Te Whatu Ora for 2024 to address cost pressures which saw centre hours cut last year
Christchurch’s 24 Hour Surgery will be truly 24 hours again from 28 January, after filling the nursing vacancies that forced the urgent-care centre to cancel most graveyard shifts since September
Artificial intelligence could play an important role in ACC-funded primary acute care, according to an advisory group established by the corporation as part of a review
Attendances at Palmerston North Hospital’s emergency department increased in the weeks after The Palms Medical Centre in the city withdrew from the Urgent Care Clinic Contract with ACC
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