10 April 2024

Not words again! In the continuing saga that is an editor’s lot, Barbara Fountain finds herself puzzling over a politician’s choice of words, which leads down a dubious path

Sara Simmons (Ngāi Tahu) is a mātanga rata/specialist GP and a director at Manu Ora, the kaupapa Māori general practice in Blenheim. She is also a palliative care doctor at Hospice Marlborough, chair of the Marlborough After Hours GP Service and a board member of the Marlborough Urgent Care Centre

The Ministry of Health plans to cut 134 jobs and slash $78 million from its budget

A group of young GP practice owners have decided to join forces and create a new group to exchange innovative ideas and support a new generation of primary care entrepreneurs

A new $17 million funding pool to “stabilise” the fragile urgent-care sector appears to be coming to the aid of some vulnerable services while rejecting or coming too late for others

Retired specialist GP and acknowledged ADHD expert Tony Hanne has been censured and suspended for one year by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, with restrictions placed on any future practice and an order to pay $175,120 in fines and costs

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has seen high GP registrar satisfaction in its recent survey, which includes an 11 per cent increase in rural medicine uptake compared to 2023

GPs can encourage the establishment of strong father–offspring bonds by encouraging dads to attend prenatal consultations, says University of British Columbia professor of family practice David Kuhl

A Samoan immigrant to Auckland died from the effects of a perforated ulcer after COVID-19 lockdown factors had led to a telephone-only GP consultation

New Zealanders are paying over the odds for sunscreen in a country with one of the highest skin cancer rates in the world, a specialist dermatologist says