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PACKAGE: $285 million over three years funding pool

More GPs practising in New Zealand by the middle of next year is a target set by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora in a summary of its delivery plan

PACKAGE: $285 million over three years funding pool

Fifteen practices are changing their PHO, including five in Christchurch in the Tāmaki Health group, according to official information obtained from Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora

Aisha Latif loves her work as a specialist GP contractor in Waikato. Qualified as a doctor in Pakistan, she had to pass exams in New Zealand before she could register here. But the real struggle, she tells Martin Johnston, was landing the necessary first job as a hospital house officer

Hutt Valley-based Te Awakairangi Health Network PHO achieved a significant increase in the number of fully vaccinated children aged eight months in the last June year

A new clinic of an established general practice has opened with a bump in enrolments that is said to be helping ease pressure in the Nelson-Tasman region

Porirua-based Ora Toa PHO managed big increases in some health services in 2023/24 but reports child vaccination numbers decreased

The ‘meso’ report on the future of PHOs has been delayed by Te Whatu Ora reworking the document but is now due out by Monday, 31 March  

Te Whatu Ora has been slapped by departing chief ombudsman Peter Boshier, who says the agency must do better and is calling for agency chiefs to face the risk of penalties for persistently flouting the Official Information Act