16 March 2022

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a health minister in possession of a workforce report must be in want of a very deep drawer*

Analysis of the GP workforce has found increasing the intake of trainees by 100 a year will save lives and costs

Capitation funding is being reviewed as part of the response to the Waitangi Tribunal’s Wai 2575 claim findings, confirms Martin Hefford, interim Lead Localities and Commissioning for interim Health New Zealand

General Practice NZ is considering a change of name

WHO has set up a logistics emergency centre in Poland to send medical supplies, including trauma kits, life-saving medicines and laboratory supplies via land transport into Ukraine and neighbouring countries

Barriers to care are no stranger to Māori with disabilities, says Te Roopu Waiora chief executive Tania Kingi, but they have been supersized by the pandemic response

Each of six different rural healthcare providers failed a young male patient, who did not find out he had syphilis until he phoned a medical centre and asked for his blood results four months after first reporting he was at risk

"Cascading, compounding and aggregate impacts…urgent, ambitious, accelerated action.”

Double-vaccinated siblings were infected with COVID-19 on a visit to the UK late last year and tested positive again two months later in New Zealand

The ongoing Omicron outbreak put front-line health workers under extraordinary pressure for several weeks as staff stayed home sick or isolating and case numbers exploded