The Medical Council has been asked to undertake a competence review of a GP who failed to provide a patient with his prostate test results in a timely manner
The Medical Council says the doctors’ disciplinary matters it handles are not covered by the vicarious liability finding from the Supreme Court in April
Chenoa Walker is practice manager for the start-up Phoenix Health Hub general practice in Christchurch and national health manager for parent company Phoenix Healthcare
Burned-out GPs need politicians to stop using health as a political football and to instead agree on solutions to the general practice crisis, leading GPs say
Using the Official Information Act, Fiona Cassie discovers the Government’s three-year spend on COVID-19 general practice services was $900 million. A ‘huge amount’, or instead ‘papering over the cracks of unsustainable general practice’?
Wellness teams based in general practice could be the answer to the dire uptake of cardiac rehabilitation services, says exercise sciences research fellow Paul Marshall
Australian Federal health and aged care minister Mark Butler has written supporting the Voice to Parliament, a committee of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to offer advice on issues that particularly affect them
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management