About 300 workers from national telehealth services provider Whakarongorau Aotearoa will go on strike for 24 hours from Sunday after rejecting their employer’s latest pay offer
Before the COVID pandemic, the global health workforce needed as many as 6.4 million more medical doctors, and the gap between demand for health workers and supply is growing
At Parnell Family Doctors, family comes first. The practice prides itself on the continuity of care and relationships it builds with its patients, writes Zahra Shahtahmasebi
Workers from national telehealth services provider Whakarongorau Aotearoa could walk off the job on Sunday if the latest offer from the company fails to break a deadlock in talks
The current financial environment is difficult for general practice. The lack of certainty over realistic capitation funding increases, the ongoing pay parity negotiations for nurses and the associated implications, and the constraints on increasing copayments, have all made our financial position challenging. Can you help?
Today about 18,000 health workers in more than 100 Allied professions - including physiotherapists, social workers, and laboratory scientists - are being offered a proposed pay equity settlement to honour the true value of the work they do
Te Whatu Ora is tight-lipped on plans to build a new community pathology laboratory for Auckland, despite the fact the agency has completed a business case for the project
Painting a grim picture of practice life isn’t helping to attract new recruits, writes Mark Liddle, but how else to convey the sector’s tough times to the powers that be?
All but one of the political parties have failed to respond to a call on nurse pay from the country’s leading primary, community and telehealth organisations
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