More than 3400 primary health care nurses and medical receptionists/administrators across more than 500 practices and accident and medical centres will stop work for two hours nationwide on Thursday 23 July after mediation to settle their multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) negotiations failed
GPs grilled politicians at today’s virtual Rotorua GPCME conference on practice nurse pay parity at the same time news emerged that nurse pay talks have stalled and are heading to mediation
A contract announcement is expected shortly on funding up to nine new nurse practitioners and about 20 enrolled nurses in primary health to increase access to mental health support
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