Stigma and inadequate laws mean many patients are not telling their GP they’ve stopped taking prescribed drugs and are using cannabis instead, says Dunedin medical anthropologist Geoff Noller.
The group leading a major transformation of Northland’s primary healthcare system has revealed it will create three locality networks in the next year, led by clinical directors
How is it that, despite several decades of market forces and funding overhauls, the words “primary healthcare” and “competition” still sit together uneasily?
In the vacuum left by the Budget announcement of $455.1 million for mental health in primary and community care, one certainty is that general practice-based Te Tumu Waiora providers will be knocking on the door for a chunk of the funding
Sixty-five-year-old Mike Pohl is a part-time GP in central Auckland with a long-term interest in gay men’s health, HIV, AIDS and HIV-transmission prevention, as well as palliative care and care of the elderly
There was some relief at Dr Doctor’s place of work today after seeing a study showing that despite what our mothers told us, knocking back umpteen coffees a day won’t wreck our hearts after all
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management