14 April 2021

In the past few days, I’ve been hanging out in a city hospital, listening to audio from our Popcorn Panels on the Simpson report, reading the page proofs for this issue, and scrolling through some “proactively” released Cabinet papers on the health-sector reforms

The extent of general practice involvement in delivering the country’s largest mass vaccination programme looks likely to be determined by practice size, geography,
DHB vacillation and refrigeration

Health minister Andrew Little says the Government is com­mitted to addressing problems in general practice and expanding the workforce in primary and community healthcare – eventually

The Medical Council is “frustrated” at the relatively low level of costs awarded against errant doctors after disciplinary hearings

The New Zealand Flying Doctor service flew 1207 missions and spent more than 2000 hours in the air last year, and expects to exceed this in 2021

More stress, more burnout and less preventive care: “COVID has left its mark,” says ProCare clinical director and Manurewa GP Allan Moffitt

After prompting anger, frustra­tion and concern among GP leaders, prime minister Jacinda Ardern corrected a statement she made that some people haven’t been “treated properly in primary care”

Under-65s eligible for a funded vaccine will have to wait several weeks to receive their seasonal influenza shot

The normalisation of child pover­ty is New Zealand’s shameful secret and is creating inter-generational damage, says retired Rotorua paediatrician Johan Morreau.