15 August 2018

Hepatitis C patients and doctors waiting for a funded drug which can treat all genotypes of the virus will have to wait a while longer

It’s not often you see a highly qualified, well-paid and well-respected professional get up in front of several hundred of his peers and admit to having an “incredibly naïve teenage attitude”

Doctors and academics, Māori leaders and community members from the East Coast and beyond gathered at Te Puia Springs Hospital recently to open a ground-breaking research centre named after the much-loved GP, the late Paratene “Pat” Ngata

 One of Auckland’s biggest gener­al practices, the 20,000-patient Apollo Medical, has quit provid­ing urgent care, after the three DHBs rejigged services in the region

Northland DHB chief executive Nick Chamberlain fears some Whangarei GPs or practices could be lost if their financial situations continue to deteri­orate

It’s “mission critical” for the Ministry of Health as seven major action points emerge for the National Bowel Screening Programme

News in brief from the 15 August 2018 issue

Blood might contain insights into personal health, but it’s also a measure of economics and cli­mate

Health minister David Clark has confirmed the final details of the review of New Zealand’s health and disability system, in­cluding the terms of reference and membership of the expert panel

 The powerful opioid fentanyl may be reclassified amid fears of a looming repetition of over­seas trends of abuse and bootleg manufacture