Dunedin specialist GP Carol Atmore is the clinical director of WellSouth PHO and a senior research fellow at the University of Otago. She likes to relax in the garden and dreams of more joy for people working in primary care
Small acts of kindness in a consultation or practice setting can make an enormous difference to the healthcare experience – from both a patient’s and a doctor’s perspective
We need some guidance about leave. We have an employee who uses all their annual leave entitlement as soon as it becomes available and then requests leave without pay during the rest of the year to take further breaks. How do we manage this?
A fair and reasonable 40-hour week for a ‘full-time’ GP – without unpaid catch-up work – would have just 22 hours of patient contact time, the RNZCGP workload research has found
PSA members working within Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand are not seeing evidence of the Government’s claims about too many administrative and corporate roles in the health system
Recent UK surveys showing GPs are struggling to find work is resulting in a steady interest rather than a surge of applications to work in New Zealand, according to local recruiters
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