1 August 2018

I expect a few of you have, like me, been pondering one of the big questions of recent times – why reboot Buffy?

A medical centre run almost en­tirely by volunteers is looking after those with the greatest needs, for free

Both sides have come out swing­ing after a group of IT companies made an official complaint against ProCare Health to the privacy commissioner

Paramedic health assurance registration; New Counties Manukau DHB chief executive; Pay equity deal signed for mental health and addiction workers; Interrupting your patients - specialists are the worst; and the Southern primary maternity plan we're still waiting on...

Primary care leader and Auck­land GP Rawiri Jansen has successfully challenged the Min­istry of Health on data that made it look acceptable to under-serve Māori

Sonja Bodley is a GP with a special interest in skin cancer medicine and surgery. She mostly works in her own clinic at Ropata Specialist Centre in Lower Hutt, also doing some traditional GP work at Ropata Medical Centre and locum work at the Skin Insti­tute Wellington

Patients, doctors and nurses be­lieve antibiotics are safer than they actually are, Auckland in­fectious diseases specialist and academic Stephen Ritchie warns

High survival rates for women with cancer detected by breast screening have emerged from research at the University of Waikato

Many Canterbury practices are hiring social workers us­ing a pool of funding formerly reserved for patients with long-term conditions

An Auckland ophthalmologist is searching for conservation en­thusiasts to “adopt” a valley in Fiordland