20 July 2022

The Ministry of Health will get a new director of public health next month

ACC is trialling three ways to get better outcomes for New Zealanders with concussion, including improving their experience in primary care

There are calls for nurse practitioners to be paid for preparing reports requested by a coroner, in the same way as GPs can be paid, after a 1 July change of regulations

A new smartwatch that is able to measure a person’s blood pressure could prevent strokes and save lives, says Stroke Foundation chief executive Jo Lambert

High salaries and bonuses on offer amid a national pharmacist shortage threaten the country’s community pharmacies, a sector leader says

PHO-contracted general practices are in line for a new COVID-19 payment of between $8000 and $40,000 each, excluding GST, from the Government

My patients and the team are the best thing about my job

The health service is stressed; everyone is doing their best

Programmes providing targeted insight into Pacific healthcare were the centrepiece of the second annual Pacific Peoples Fono in the Community

A workforce survey delivered to the Government last week has earned Women in Medicine two meetings with health leaders to discuss ways to avert a “catastrophic collapse of the healthcare workforce”