Hawera GP Keith Blayney says a DHB-planned primary and urgent care health service for South Taranaki would be a top-down fix for a non-existent problem
Lyttelton GP and adventure racer Sophie Hart is anticipating a less strenuous lifestyle after finishing second in the gruelling Coast to Coast Longest Day challenge
Members of the teaching, law and other professions can be awarded costs after unsuccessful cases against them. In this article, Wellington barrister Gaeline Phipps asks the question: “Is it time for a change to the legislative framework for doctors?”
Travel in the last six months and failure of empiric treatment are two important red flags for sending a urine sample to the laboratory for culture for antibiotic-resistant strains
Young children are at a higher risk of burns, particularly scalds, as they explore their environment. This first of two articles on paediatric burns summarises the steps general practice can take to optimise initial care and promote healing with reduced scarring
Primary care clinicians need to be confident that their talk interventions do make a difference to a patient’s distress; in most situations, a talk first and prescribe later approach allows the benefits of a non-drug approach to be assessed and acknowledged
Being first on the scene of a mass-casualty accident requires you to operate in a way that may go against your instincts and engrained practice as a doctor or nurse
A 2016 guideline update by NICE offers GPs direction on managing patients with acute and chronic low back pain and sciatica while stressing it is just a framework to work from for arriving at individual treatment plans
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