10 October 2018

The Government should be a standard-setting leader and keep out of much of the rest of health IT, says HealthLink chief executive Tom Bowden

A fale on the beach in Samoa, on the island of Suvai’i, is simplicity incarnate. A mattress, pillow and mosquito net resting on a
raised platform, a tin roof with thatch to keep the rain out, and woven flax matting to let the breeze through

The past and the future were brought simultaneously into focus at the opening of the long-awaited $14 million Bay of Islands Hospital redevelopment in Kawakawa late last month

Health professionals applying for an annual practising certif­icate will soon have their per­sonal details forwarded to the Ministry of Health to assist its workforce planning

Comings and goings at New Zealand Doctor, Nobel Prize for two cancer researchers and new air ambulance contracts

Agreement has been reached on a package of $376.2 million over four years for general practice to provide free visits for under-14s and expand use of the Commu­nity Services Card

More than four years after in­decently assaulting six women, south Auckland GP Mushfiq Ah­mad has been struck off, cen­sured and ordered to pay costs

The former National Govern­ment’s first social bond has failed, and the mental health programme arising from it will likely morph into an ordinary contract for service

Patients have acclaimed his ec­zema treatments, and he is the author of a book on the sub­ject, but Auckland GP Joseph Williams has had his uncon­ventional prescribing deemed malpractice

New disability support system Mana Whaikaha, launched in Palmerston North last week, turns the disability system on its head