27 September 2023

GP registrars are the future of general practice, and New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa wants to hear from them. We asked Mathanki Vivekananda 11 questions about general practice, medical school and what excites her about her career ahead

Puzzled practice managers and a health journalist trying to get their heads around the Government’s recently released roadmap for primary care?

Whatever the outcome of polling day next month, public servants will be kept busy polishing their copy for the traditional briefings to the incoming minister, writes Gabrielle Baker

Disability rights advocate and former Green Party MP Mojo Mathers has been appointed chief executive of the Disabled Persons Assembly NZ

Following previous articles on the Integrated Primary Mental Health and Addiction programme and its implementation in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland as Te Tumu Waiora, David Codyre, Sarah Andrews and Eli Kliejunas summarise findings from the first phase of programme enquiry

Occupational health expert David McBride discusses the worrying effects of plastics on humans and the environment

Gisborne Hospital staff amputated a man’s leg above the knee in 2019 due to sepsis and chronic wounds, but postoperative shortcomings led to Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti (formerly Tairāwhiti DHB) being held in breach of the code for the hospital’s inadequate care

Specialist GP Jo Scott-Jones explains how patient-centred medicine can be used to bridge the gap between what patients need and want

A woman with a severe penicillin allergy died after being injected with Augmentin despite multiple safeguards that included a medical alert necklace and prominent warning notes

Wellington barrister Gaeline Phipps uses a recent ruling from the Health and Disability Commissioner to illustrate the need for a holistic systemic review of healthcare