14 December 2022

The ProCare group, which includes New Zealand’s biggest PHO, closed the financial year $9 million in surplus, its annual report shows

Virginia McMillan discovers work is well advanced on what is hoped will be a life-changing and system changing new approach to maternity care

Editor Barbara Fountain writes of primary care’s struggles trying not to come a gutser in COVID’s third year

Retired specialist GP and former RNZCGP president Jonathan Fox was disheartened to read current RNZCGP president Samantha Murton’s recent column urging support for GPs as specialists alongside other specialists and as trainers of the next generation of GPs

Belonging involves longing. Longing for home, for land, for connection, says Lucy O’Hagan

We’re off. It’s our traditional summer closure when, as most news makers and news readers take a break, it seems sensible that we reporters do so too

Actions described as “professional suicide” could result in further sanctions against former Wellington GP Matthew Shelton

Because “real evidence” was lacking, general practice nurses have not so far been included in the Government’s $200 million for pay parity. Fiona Cassie examines the evidence and finds out how the omission was received in the sector

Pharmac intends to fund Trikafta for people with cystic fibrosis who are aged six and over and meet certain criteria

Consultancy firm Sapere has reviewed general practice capitation and found it wanting, but health funders have framed the review as just one part of the picture of potential changes to primary care funding