12 May 2021

Many of the country's more than 220,000 health and disability sector employees just had their world turned upside down

It truly was a race against time as I tumbled my way through 20 Power­Point slides at the rate of 20 seconds per slide. I was new to the discipline of PechaKucha – the art of the seven-minute slide presentation – before I tackled one at the recent National Rural Health Conference

More than 70 doctors, the majority being Kiwi or Australian, are offering online medical assistance to COVID-19 patients via a live chat app, after an Auckland GP shared an SOS call she received from struggling India

Rural general practice champion Tim Malloy says he was proud to have family at the investiture of his Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit

In Christchurch, a pharmacy and a med­ical centre have collaborated to turn a former retail store into a COVID-19 vaccination site

Hugs, laughs, tears, backslapping – there was no shortage of aroha and joy when rural gen¬eral practice got together for the first time in two years, late last month

The RNZCGP has suspended one of the three modules in its Cornerstone general practice accreditation scheme

A new interactive tool mapping emergen­cy medical responses across the country is the source of hope for new discussions on how services like PRIME could be bet­ter funded and resourced

In aged residential care, a good professional collaboration between the visiting GP and the on-site nurses is important, but a much bigger team is involved in residents’ care and also needs to collaborate, an Australian study has found