More coffee machines and more people featured at this year’s Goodfellow Symposium. Around 1000 delegates including exhibitors attended the symposium at the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau, Auckland. Again, the symposium theme centred around “Skills for next Monday”
Doctors’ trust in the Medical Council would be put at risk by a new requirement that the council provide the Ministry of Health with names and personal details of members
Excitement at the arrival of a surgeon able to perform gender reassignment surgery has been dampened by news there are no specific plans for her to do the operations
With recruitment, retention and resourcing a perennial problem outside the major centres, Keira Stephenson pays a visit to three “rural-ish” practices. She finds that, guided by steady hands, with a pinch of humour and cupfuls of commitment, they are getting the rural recipe right
Pharmacists up and down the country have been attending roadshows explaining the pros and cons of a new community pharmacy contract. Ruth Brown explains what’s up
A group of children living in the most pernicious type of poverty won’t be the subject of a government target until 2025, and the NZMA says that needs to change
A planned law change gives the Medical Council and other health authorities the job of encouraging collaboration across the health professions, but the NZMA doesn’t want a bar of it
Janine Bycroft, an associate clinical director at ProCare Health PHO, has been a GP for 22 years, the past five of them at Mt Wellington Family Health Centre in Auckland
Dr Doctor popped on to the health select committee’s Facebook page to watch the live-streaming of the RNZCGP’s oral submission on the Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis) Amendment Bill
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