22 November 2023

Once thriving, the lesser-spotted general practitioner needs a fan base and a protected habitat, writes editor Barbara Fountain

Sandra Flooks is a specialist GP at Coromandel Family Health Centre, which she co-owns with her husband and fellow doctor Bryan MacLeod. She is a staunch conservationist, involved with the restoration of the Waiau wetlands and the area’s birdlife, and is a keen open-water swimmer

That’s it. I’m finished with medicine

Luke Bradford sees many advantages in having a health minister with a general practice background

Colville Community Health Centre has a new GP and nurse practitioner and hasn’t missed a beat since long-serving specialist GP Kate Armstrong-Campbell departed

A proposal for increasing the involvement of general practices in Te Whatu Ora contract talks is currently under consideration as a restart of the long-stalled funding talks process gets another step closer

Primary care groups have offered five leaders to participate in yet another review of general practice capitation by government agencies

Along-awaited rural telehealth service was launched this month, less than a week after Ka Ora Telecare was announced as the successful contract winner, leaving rural GPs scrambling to learn more about it in the days beforehand

Practices hope a switchover this month to the new immunisation register will remove the headaches of legacy systems, as Fiona Cassie reports

The UK soft drinks industry levy, introduced in 2018, may have reduced the number of under 18s having a tooth removed due to tooth decay by 12 per cent, suggests research published in the open access journal BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health