Green Cross has bought into its first practice in the Whanganui region and added another in the South Island, bringing its tally of fully or partially owned practices to 55
Additional funding is vital to close the growing pay parity gap between practice and DHB nurses and to stop a practice nurse exodus, argues a joint employer and union briefing paper to the health minister
About 20 stretched rural practices and hospitals applied for urgent workforce support within days of a new COVID-19 initiative being launched two weeks ago
As I write, New Zealand is in the midst of phase 3 of the Omicron response plan, and case numbers are fluctuating daily. It is hard to imagine a plan has been in place
The slowing of COVID-19 case numbers comes as a relief for a Porirua high-needs general practice after it dealt with a peak of 1500 positive patients in the past four weeks
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