8 May 2019

GP consultants are being moot­ed as a means to keep valuable rural GPs in the workforce long­er to help with medical training

The report of the Mental Health and Addiction Inquiry, chaired by Ron Paterson, deserves to be commended for its laudable aims and justifica­tion for the need to expand considerably the scope of our mental health services

If there is such a thing as a health manager’s lament, it might sound a little like whale song. Mournful, rising out of the depths and steeped in history

Judkins elected to RNZCGP board; Flu hospitalisations in Canterbury; New Zealand’s drug habit revealed; Double up with quit therapy, review says

Nurses would outnum­ber GPs in the medical centre of the future envisaged by General Practice New Zealand

Karori GP Jeff Lowe is pleased he can now envisage a possi­ble “dream team” for general practice, and he hopes the mul­tiprofessional idea will gain mo­mentum.

Northland primary healthcare is in for a huge shake-up in the next few weeks with a 1 July deadline for a new organisation, Mahitahi Hauora, to replace two existing PHOs

Infection expert Sally Roberts wants PHOs and general prac­tices to dig into their data

Health services have only one problem to solve, one that current health “leaders” have demonstrated they are ill-equipped to address

Nelson GP registrar Tom Davies had a wake-up call when studying stigma against fat people