Auckland’s long drawn-out tender process for after-hours services has been delayed, with the DHBs failing to meet their own 1 November deadline to finalise new contracts
It is a no-brainer – smoking is bad for you. We know that; they know that. Tobacco smoking is responsible for around 5000 deaths a year in New Zealand, at a cost of around $2.5 billion dollars.1 Imagine what Winston could do with that.
Around 2000 international GPs will be heading to Auckland in 2020 after the RNZCGP succeeded in its bid to host the World Organisation of Family Doctors’ Asia Pacific (WONCA) conference
A GP has been fined $5000 and must pay $12,000 in costs for prescribing psychotropic medication and drugs of dependence to her husband, without monitoring or oversight
ACC has announced a $607 million surplus for the year ended 30 June 2017 on the back of rising interest rates and inflation, with investment income growing by $2.1 billion
The nurses’ union is worried about the risks to safety in a Capital & Coast DHB proposal to employ heathcare assistants in a mental health crisis team short on nurses
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