29 September 2021

In 2018 I spent a large part of my year focused on the Waitangi Tribunal’s stage one inquiry into health services and outcomes.

It seems takeaways are to the end of lockdown what toilet paper was to the beginning; an odd gastro roundabout of sorts.

Nelson Bays Primary health chief executive Sara Shaughnessy multitasks by hosting an NGO Zoom meeting during her lunch break from being a recovery nurse at a mass vaccination clinic at Nelson’s Trafalgar Centre last month.

I love a bit of alliteration and that dollop came tripping off my fingertips as I set to work to encourage readers to think about the awesome innovation and hard work taking place in primary care today

Invercargill GP and Otago Medical School professor Sue Crengle has been appointed to the interim board of the Māori Health Authority

Primary care leaders are calling for national guidelines on how mild-to-moderate COVID-19 will be managed in the community after New Zealand’s borders reopen, or if quarantine facilities become overwhelmed with cases.

General Practice NZ chief executive Liz Stockley is leaving the organisation later this year, to return to England to be closer to family members

The Health Quality & Safety Commission has been funding DHBs to reduce harm from failures to recognise and respond to acute physical deterioration in adult in-patients.

Cutting a track through a road slip to enable Marlborough Sounds residents to be vaccinated is one example of teamwork that has the Top of the South topping COVID-19 vaccination tables.

For Adrian Maxwell, it can be as simple as where the client is sleeping that can hint at deeper problems. Mr Maxwell is not just looking at the person’s health conditions.