30 August 2023

Acting editor Patrice Dougan finds the GP’s lot in many countries is pretty much as dire as it seems in New Zealand

Reporter Alan Perrott goes to the theatre for a night out to take his mind off his day job… oh, wait, to find himself fairly and squarely in doctor territory – with shades of WWII horror

Birgit McConnachie studied medicine at Charité – University Hospital in Berlin, then worked in Germany and Spain before arriving in New Zealand in 2014. She practises at Koru Medical Clinic in Kerikeri

Continued mask use should be normalised and encouraged now that the Government has ended COVID-19 restrictions, says RNZCGP medical director Luke Bradford

Almost 30 years after a group of midwives birthed Turuki Health Care, the Māngere-based provider is getting back into community maternity services

Women’s health expert Bev Lawton has raised concerns about the lack of ongoing funding for the new cervical cancer screening test starting next month

The RNZCGP accused accused the National Party of “political gamesmanship” over its plan to slash the number of people receiving free prescriptions to fund new cancer drugs

An application for resource consent for the New Dunedin Hospital inpatient building has been lodged, says Te Whatu Ora Southern via a media release

A GP’s failure to act on a patient’s CT scan results led to a delay of more than two-and-a-half years in her cancer diagnosis, the Health and Disability Commissioner has ruled

Stephen Forbes looks at a marae health venture through the eyes of its regular doctor, Ruba Harfeil, who left behind the Middle East for New Zealand in 2012