8 November 2023

Stephen Forbes takes a look at the findings of a new report on aged care which calls for a total rethink on the funding of home and community-support services and the provision of aged residential care

Gabrielle Baker puzzles over whether she should be celebrating what looks like a significant increase in funding for Māori health providers

Editor Barbara Fountain recently travelled to Sydney with colleague Fiona Cassie to catch up with 4000 family doctors from around the world

US-trained GP Joan Song grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona, spending most of her career providing care to the state’s Native American community. Dr Song is working towards RNZCGP fellowship, based at Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Pikiao practice in Rotorua

Greg Judkins looks at the heady aura surrounding medicine and doctors, particularly in earlier times, and how attitudes towards life events have evolved

GPs need to know a shitload of stuff that they haven’t been taught so, be curious, writes Lucy O’Hagan

Consumer health website Healthify He Puna Waiora is in limbo as Te Whatu Ora reviews contracts with content providers and gets set to launch a new website this month

Former RNZCGP employees want to provide information confidentially to an independent party as part of a college probe aimed at improving staff turnover rates

Australasia’s first large-scale, indoor hospital “healing garden” is to be the centrepiece of the four-storey hospital under construction at North Shore Hospital, Auckland

The Pasifika Medical Association is hoping to move the practice gifted by “Papa” Joe Williams in 2020 to another, larger central Auckland site where more services can be offered