8 May 2024

Editor Barbara Fountain mulls over some big numbers

How well do you remember those early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when New Zealand watched in apprehension as the virus spread uncontrolled in Italy, as health workers died on the job, and morgues ran out of room for the bodies of the dead

Keerthana Vishaal Kamath trained in India and works at Richmond Road Medical Centre, Auckland. She is married and has two children

The revelation Te Whatu Ora is offering to directly employ first-year GP registrars, which emerged during a row over a media statement from the Resident Doctors’ Association about its strike notice, ‘Te Whatu Ora planning to take over employment of first year GP trainees’ (online 23 April), sparked a number of comments – two calling it a “train wreck”

Stressed doctors in earlier colonial New Zealand appeared to have God on their side...or at least the bishop

A Te Whatu Ora 2023/24 savings target of $1–2 billion highlighted during a parliamentary select committee hearing in February was a typo according to the health agency which has since corrected the error

As Te Whatu Ora approaches the end of its second year leading the publicly funded health sector, reporter Martin Johnston reviews the prospects for a number of contracts in the primary care sector

Snake bite victims in Australia have been urged not to bring the offending reptile into the emergency department with them when seeking care

A microarray patch the size of a sticking plaster could potentially boost the vaccination rate against measles in middle and lower-income countries to 95 per cent

The free digital immunisation catch-up tool developed by National Hauora Coalition is being expanded to provide “whole of lifespan” vaccination data for practice patients