27 March 2024

Editor Barbara Fountain finds herself getting picky over notions of how general practice is portrayed

Marrllyn Donaldson, or Maz, is a former British Army captain who works as a long-term conditions nurse for the WellSouth PHO and primary health network. Space travel and sports are two of her passions

After a 21-month hiatus, the general practice sector’s contract talks forum with funder Te Whatu Ora met and approved a new protocol this month, allowing practices to appoint their own agents

Intellectually disabled people can expect to live 20 years less than the general population; for Māori, the gap is even wider. IHC New Zealand advocate Shara Turner outlines a profound system failure

Fiona Cassie looks at the lead-up to the eleventhhour allocation of new immunisation funding for general practices offered in the wake of the widening of infant vax providers to community pharmacies

Commercial python farming could be a sustainable means of future human food production. Researchers studied more than 4000 reticulated and Burmese pythons, finding they grew rapidly over 12 months without needing food as often as other livestock, according to findings published in Scientific Reports

Martin Johnston takes his own deep dive into a Te Whatu Ora paper painting the landscape of the primary care sector

“PHOs will continue to play an integral part in delivering healthcare,” says health minister Shane Reti

Pharmacists will be the predominant part of the Government-funded Comprehensive Primary and Community Team work in the southern part of Tasman district, southwest of Nelson City

Tāmaki Health is boosting its outreach immunisation programme by about $15,000 to fund free flu vaccinations for people over 55