21 October 2020

As I write, the election approaches; as you read, it has passed. Unless there has been a landslide in Labour’s direction – the other direction looks unlikely – we will be waiting for a coalition to be formed

A clinical education programme launching this month is aimed at increasing equity of access to medicines and is funded through a Pharmac contract

Practice nurses are considering further strike action over the lack of urgency in funding pay parity

General practices handled just as many patient contacts in the national COVID-19 lockdown as they normally do, a study suggests

NZMA chair Kate Baddock has apologised to members after earlier defending the association’s opposition to legalising recreational cannabis

Planned Care should be bringing more services out of hospitals and into primary care, but COVID-19 has intervened

A member of the public inappropriately observed a surgical operation at Wellington Regional Hospital, says Capital & Coast DHB in a media release

DHB deficits have swelled to more than $874 million under the influence of the pandemic and holiday pay mistakes, and could go higher yet

A report shows healthcare workers in New Zealand were infected in the COVID-19 “first wave” at a lower rate than their counterparts elsewhere

The RNZCGP Class of 2020 will always be unique and, for the time being at least, socially distanced