12 December 2018

GPs reflect on 2018 and make prognosis' for 2019

Recent releases and some firm favourites make up this round-up of reviews for the summer holidays

WE’RE TOLD in a cheese ad that good things take time

Three-year contract for Mobile Surgical Service; Thirteen DHBs drop urogynaecological mesh surgeries; HDC complaints up 13 per cent; Workforce and medicines equity; Ministry fills three top jobs

Health groups have welcomed visits from Heather Simpson, chair of the Government’s health and disability system review, but the approach being taken is start­ing to raise questions

Primary care leaders have been seeking to influence the next Budget’s new money for the sector

Northland GPs were dealing with frightened parents and medicine shortages as the ur­gent vaccination campaign against the region’s meningo­coccal W outbreak got under way last week

RNZCGP members are waiting to see how new president Sam Murton approaches the task of rebuilding confidence in the col­lege after a difficult few months

For the second year in a row, a small single-doctor general prac­tice has won the top prize at the ProCare Quality Awards, beating competition from some of the country’s largest clinics

Practice nurses are said to be dis­satisfied with the 4 per cent pay increase negotiated by the nurs­es’ union, with even NZMA chair Kate Baddock accepting they should get more