19 June 2019

LETTER
From Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Kyle Eggleton and Ngaire Kerse Department of general practice and primary health care, University of Auckland

WellSouth PHO medical director Stephen Graham and Cheryl Moeke, WellSouth’s workforce development advisor, report back on a GP CME session with a distinctly deep-south flavour

This month, our panel is asked about getting doctors’ liability insurance.

Nearly a decade on since the push be­gan for a national electronic health record, a fresh proposal to instead build a national Health Information Platform (HIP) goes to the Cabinet this month

The health sector is increasingly being driven by data, but how to store, access and manage those data at a national level has been a controversial issue

Green Cross Health’s full year financial results show a 3.2 per cent increase to its net profit, with its medical division being the star performer

Data should drive real-time improve­ments to clinical practice to help overcome clinician bias and reluctance to change, says digital health leader Lloyd McCann

Douglas Pharmaceutical’s work in finding new uses for old drugs, plus developing generic drugs, will be boosted by a $35 million research and development facility

The winds of change may be buffet­ing primary care, but it appears GPs are keeping calm and carrying on with long-term commitments to their prac­tices