12 October 2022

Health officials are checking that hospitals under government pressure to bring down their waiting lists are still adding all patients who qualify for surgery

A pilot programme aimed at providing Northland practices with remote nursing and clinical support is “pretty darn amazing”, says specialist GP Kathy Bakke

COVID-19 case numbers have started to drift up again, prompting a reminder that summer weather is no protection against a large outbreak of this coronavirus

Practice nurses were due to down stethoscopes for nationwide paid stopwork meetings on 12 October over the stalled pay talks

The Ministry of Health has done “excellent work” in response to the Official Information Act 1982, but has been found wanting in how it handles some official information requests

Data surveys can be pretty dry stuff, but Taria Tane’s summary of studies on provision of cardiovascular services to rural indigenous communities definitely raised some hackles

Rongoā Māori, a significant part of the Māori Health Authority’s healthcare toolbox, could fall foul of the Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill

Alan Perrott hears about 70-hour weeks, multitasking, the fear factor and older people’s deaths in the pandemic’s full flush in rural New Zealand

Government  support is being sought to fast-track the rollout of the health care home model to more practices. Mark Liddle, chair of Collaborative Aotearoa which champions the model, made the request in a letter to health minister Andrew Little last month, says collaborative chief executive Amarjit Maxwell

The new act requiring ACC to cover more injuries to mothers during labour and birth does not go far enough, says University of Otago senior law lecturer Simon Connell