19 August 2020

Howdy, everyone. This is an editorial written without the aid of popcorn, because we decided with a few hours’ notice to go to print early – that is, seven days early

The lessons learned from New Zealand’s first lockdown will be of great help a second time around, primary care leaders say

Faced with the possibility of another damaging lockdown, primary care leaders were planning to press the Government for an assurance there is adequate funding available for the COVID-19 health response

The level of care provided by a third-year GP registrar to a man who died from septicaemia was below acceptable levels, says health and disability commissioner Anthony Hill

General practice in Bluff, origin of the country’s biggest COVID-19 cluster to date, was reporting business as usual last week during the latest burst of renewed COVID activity

The National Hauora Coalition’s Best Start pregnancy assessment tools are a “rocket fuelled” shift in the provision of care to hāpu māmā, Whanganui GP John McMenamin says

The Public Health Association is demanding to know how the health system review ended by recommending a Māori Health Authority that lacks any funding power

Hinamaha Lutui was gently blindsided just as a PHO meeting was ending

It was heartbreaking to learn my husband of more than 20 years was having an affair

As we watched prime minister Jacinda Ardern and director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield at an emergency press conference late on the night of Tuesday 11 August, I felt my partner begin to slide across the couch away from me