12 September 2018

It is Māori Language Week across the country this week. The theme this year is “Kia kaha te reo Māori”, meaning “Let’s make the Māori language strong”.

Vacillation is never a great trait in an editor. But I have vacillated over whether to change the paper’s masthead to acknowledge Māori Language Week

Short takes on health news

A national IT system for DHBs was paused after Deloitte found rafts of hidden costs and few de­tailed rollout plans

Negotiators have hammered out most of the details of an agree­ment to revise general practice funding from December

GPs surveyed on data privacy are not losing sleep over the safety of patient data, but they do believe they have ultimate responsibility for keeping these data safe

The long-anticipated new Grey Base Hospital originally due to be finished in April, now has a ten­tative completion date of autumn 2019, with final costs unknown

GP Melanie Wi Repa says she is on a lifelong journey to learn her own language

A GP working in one of Napi­er’s most deprived suburbs says addiction to synthetic cannabis and methamphetamine is dam­aging the community

Working smarter with data has helped The Palms Medical Cen­tre reduce the number of its pa­tients who are “frequent flyers” at Palmerston North Hospital and in the practice