13 October 2021

I have found a new condition and named it lockdown dreads.

Mt Roskill GP registrar Vanisi Prescott, “the TikTok doctor”, knows the personal impact of good role models; she didn’t believe a job in medicine was possible until she saw Samoan GP Debbie Ryan in a white coat.

The government needs to work out who will pay for widespread telehealth management of mild-tomoderate COVID-19 in the community, says Primary Care Clinical Leaders Group chair Jo Scott-Jones.

Metro Auckland GPs are being offered $60 per phone call to boost efforts to contact unvaccinated Māori and Pacific patients.

A buy-up bender has netted Green Cross Health three more clinics, soon after news broke of its hope to reel in rival Tāmaki Health.

Australia has made it mandatory for people to have a doctor’s prescription before purchasing nicotine e-cigarettes from any source.

Patients would have great difficulty finding out from Auckland general practices just what contraception they provide, says a primary care professional.

The NZMA is talking a fresh look at its stance on health equity – dubbed “not very good” by a leading Māori doctor and “groundbreaking, arguably, in its day” by chair Alistair Humphrey.

Migrant doctors who have had a year of anxiety over their right to live in New Zealand have welcomed the opening up of residency to 5000 health and aged-care workers.

The decision to allow routine vaccinations alongside COVID-19 shots is unlikely to prevent the country’s MMR stock from expiring before it is used.