23 June 2021

Upskilling GPs in order to save older residents from an hour’s drive south to Wellington for macular degeneration treatment, is one early win from the Kāpiti Community Health Network

As you may know, employees are legally entitled under the Holidays Act 2003 to four weeks’ annual leave after 12 months’ continuous employment. Some employment agreements have more generous entitlements, so you may need to check the terms for individual employees

The latest full-year results are in from Green Cross Health and they show its medical and com¬munity health divisions have done bet¬ter than last year, while its pharmacy division has not

Best Practice Advocacy Centre New Zealand is taking on MIMS, offering drug information direct to prescribers’ practice management systems

South Seas Healthcare, a south Auckland primary healthcare provider, is bedding in a virtual consultation service tailored for its mostly Pacific patients

Seamless electronic prescribing for Nelson Marlborough DHB clinicians is on its way, and integration with primary care providers may follow, says DHB clinical director Bev Nicolls

Our culture is the best thing about Grey Lynn Family Medical Centre, a 30-years-young, Very Low Cost Access practice serving multi-generational whānau across Auckland

NZMA chair Alistair Humphrey plans to spend more time advocating for the medical profession, having left his job at Canterbury DHB following an employment dispute

In the He Ako Hiringa article “Updated diabetes HealthPathways bravely paved with equity” that ap­peared in the 9 June issue of New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa, dulaglutide was mistakenly referred to as a glucagon-like peptide-1 inhibitor

Life as a GP is not straightforward. We gaze longingly at the pay and conditions of our non-GP hospital specialist colleagues working in DHBs