2 February 2022

Omicron rules our world for now, no matter how hard we try to shift our focus

Once Clare Healy realised how many of her patients might have been sexually abused or assaulted, she couldn’t look back

The merger that created the Mahitahi Hauora primary health entity in 2019 was a “reasonable” idea that has failed, says GenPro chair and owner of the Coast to Coast Health Care network specialist GP Tim Malloy

The Medical Research Institute of New Zealand says that, for most people who are critically ill, balanced crystalloids for intravenous fluid therapy rather than saline saves lives

Sydney GPs have been flying blind with Omicron, only learning of their patients’ diagnosis if the person phones up for help

Practices are being urged to school up their vulnerable patients on COVID-19 so they can quickly be tested and treated if they get symptoms in the coming Omicron wave

Australian GP Jeff Lee has had half a dozen patients test positive for Omicron in the past month

GP leaders are querying the apparent lack of national contingency planning in case primary care gets hit hard by COVID-19

Workforce and capacity are the biggest challenges facing Auckland’s targeted programmes for COVID-19 patients isolating at home, says a nurse in Ōtara, south Auckland

Pacific healthcare providers in Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington have agreed to share staff should any of their number lose staff due to Omicron infection