21 November 2018

Ruth Brown tests the temperature in Dunedin, home to New Zealand’s largest new hospital build, for signs of warmth between hospital and primary/community partners

Narae Song is coming to the end of her first year as a GP registrar. She practises at Paraparaumu Medical Centre on the Kapiti Coast and this year won the Greg Judkins Poetry Competition at the Conference for General Practice

Narae Song is a first-year GP registrar working on the Kapiti Coast. She is an Otago graduate and has worked in various places over the years, but Wellington is now home. She says she joined general practice because it was her first love in medicine.

GPs responding to the latest New Zealand Doctor/IQVIA fax poll are not impressed with the Government’s han­dling of primary healthcare in its first year in charge

THE REGISTRAR PANEL

This month, our panel is asked how to handle working with chaperones. If you are a GPEP registrar and have a question for the panel, please email smaude@nzdoctor.co.nz

It’s great that you’re wanting to look after your team and give everyone a break. There are a few elements you should consider and be aware of before doing this

Change is pretty much guaranteed to be a constant process in healthcare and Nelson-Marlborough DHB is doing its bit to keep doctors and other health workers up to speed with its Time for a Change course

Last month’s New Zealand Doctor fax poll revealing a startling lack of business acumen among GPs was not news to Serena Davis

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, and So Much Life Left Over, by Louis de Bernières

User name theft, often from third-party database hacks, means cybercriminals are often just one step away from breaching medical practice networks, gaining control of patient data