29 January 2020

Really, 2020? Surely it was just yesterday we were count­ing down to the new millennium; when IT managers were simultaneously grinding their teeth and rubbing their hands anticipating millennium bug’s untold IT misery and the accompanying pay packet bonus for them?

 A “little older, greyer and creakier”, Akaroa GP teammates Howard Wilson and Martin London have reunited after a quarter of a century

Primary and community healthcare leaders are being called to a meeting that could help shape how providers work together more closely

Pharmac is on the lookout for deals allowing it to fund new, more effective drugs for type 2 diabe-tes – without which New Zealand is “well out of step with international standards”

“GP to follow up results,” says the email from a hospital doctor 

St John ambulance may back tougher penalties for those who attack first responders, but a rural GP says proposed mandatory prison sentences are bizarre

New Zealand must prepare for a SARS-like response to the coronavirus epi¬demic that is spreading around the globe from Wuhan in China, a public health expert says

The shock of the Whakaari/White Island eruption continues to affect the survivors and their families, as well as rescuers and medical practitioners

From general practice research to kaupapa Māori health govern¬ance, the many faces of health people on the New Year Honours list have together contributed hundreds of years’ work