A row has broken out between two Bay of Plenty PHOs, with accusations of practice poaching involving one of the country’s biggest corporate primary healthcare companies
Andy von Biel was a GP at Te Awamutu Medical Centre for 30 years before moving to Waihi Beach in 2016. He now works as a long-term locum at Waihi Family Doctors and does some locum work at Waihi Beach Medical Centre, where he can go home for lunch
Tension between government and health professionals is a permanent backdrop to health policy and healthcare delivery, writes University of Auckland health policy researcher Tim Tenbensel
Declining patient satisfaction with GPs is leading RNZCGP president Tim Malloy to suggest the college may need to do more to grow GPs’ communication skills
Waimate GP Steve Fish needs his bike; it’s crucial to fundraising plans that will see him cycling the empty streets of Paris with Tour de France racers hot on his tail
More than 5000 patients have been advised they may have been exposed to the risk of infection when they had open-heart surgery in the past five years, across four DHBs
An independent reviewer will report to health minister David Clark by June on IT, DHB capacity, operational management and clinical matters within the National Bowel Screening Programme
A legal glitch granting nurse practitioners the power to sign off on death certificates, but not cremation certificates, should be fixed by the end of April, the Ministry of Health says
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