Fresh from taking out the ACC Patient Safety Award at this year’s New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora, the Health Navigator Charitable Trust is aiming higher
Waikato DHB expected it would take three days to set things right… GPs, community nurses, pharmacists and allied health clinicians across the Waikato awoke on 18 May to discover they couldn’t connect with most of their local DHB’s IT systems
Eastern Bay Primary Health Alliance PHO has welcomed Budget funding for prototypes of the locality networks that will provide integrated care once the proposed health reforms are in place
Budget 2021’s lack of recognition of the rural workforce crisis is demoralising, says New Zealand Rural General Practice Network chief executive Grant Davidson
Budget 2021 provides for a few small gains in women’s health but lacks a big-picture view, says the group campaigning for a strategic approach to healthcare for women
The Budget added extra money for disability support services, but it won’t make up for historic un-derfunding, says CCS Disability Action chief executive David Matthews
The Budget’s investment in the Pacific Wellbeing Strategy creates an opportu¬nity to understand why and where the health system continues to fail Pacific peoples, says researcher and former GP Debbie Ryan
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management