8 November 2017

During a busy Friday morning clinic, you see two male patients in their 40s presenting with symp­toms suggesting possible depression

She’s helping out at a high-needs, hard-to-staff Waitara general practice, has a full-time job at New Plymouth’s MediCross Urgent Care & GP Clinic, works as a police medical officer and represents her community on Taranaki DHB

Two GPs from the same medical centre independently failed to tell a patient of two abnormal PSA test results, months before he developed prostate cancer

General practice support and advocacy group General Prac­tice New Zealand is tightening its belt, saving $90,000 annually by shedding staff and moving its Wellington office

“Sleep training improves infant sleep problems.”

The country has a new health minister and a possible new direction for health following the completion of post-election coalition talks between Labour, New Zealand First and the Greens

Q: How do you deal with over-protective parents?

The “How to Treat chronic insomnia”concentrated on “non-pharmacological approaches”, with only a small half-column section on medications, titled “Hypnotic medications have a limited role” and advising only prescribing of hypnotics on a short-term basis for intermittent use with planned reduction

Ministry of Health-funded new partnerships to help people quit smoking in primary care fell short of their target nationally, but they can’t be said to have flopped

A hot topic leading up to our general election and sure to be on the agenda for many a meeting to come, is the need for the funding of primary care to change