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Warehouse pharmacy gets two-month reprieve

Warehouse pharmacy gets two-month reprieve
Friday 27 January 2012, 3:39PM

A pharmacy at The Warehouse in Blenheim will stay open, at least for another two months, while negotiations over ownership continue

DHB nurses to vote on MECA next month

Friday 27 January 2012, 2:08PM

DHB nurses have been offered a 4.5 per cent pay increase over three years in a new deal proposed by DHBs

Radius Care workers vote to strike

Friday 27 January 2012, 9:17AM

Radius Care workers have voted to strike after six months of negotiations failed to end a pay dispute

New GPs unlikely to help Marlborough waiting lists

Thursday 26 January 2012, 5:03PM

New GPs arriving in Marlborough are unlikely to ease patient waiting lists, but the region’s PHO is confident it has found a solution

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PHO launches alcohol project in Bay

Thursday 26 January 2012, 4:44PM

A new primary care alcohol awareness project has been launched in Hawke’s Bay

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Performer calls for more non-alcoholic choices

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New alcohol awareness project launched in Hawke’s Bay

Health Hawke's BayThursday 26 January 2012, 4:42PM

Pacific Islands Forum urged to address health disparities

Catholic Health Thursday 26 January 2012, 10:32AM

Heather Roy to chair Medicines New Zealand

Medicines New ZealandThursday 26 January 2012, 10:16AM

National drowning toll at eight year high

Water Safety New ZealandThursday 26 January 2012, 8:50AM
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A tale of two stockings

A tale of two stockings

Friday 16 December 2011, 1:14PM

Will the Christmas stockings be packed with goodies this year or hanging empty? Liane Topham-Kindley takes a look at recent trends in GP remuneration and finds them to be a bit of a mystery

...for Pete's sake

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 5:09PM

Deputy editor Amanda Cameron talks life, the universe and everything with a man (or is he a machine?) at the heart of medical and health practice and policy

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Election Selection: Picking over policies

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 2:25PM

Wellington correspondent Virginia McMillan picks through the policies on offer from political parties in search of some healthy content

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PHO fates murky in alliance era

PHO fates murky in alliance era

Friday 16 December 2011, 1:09PM

Liane Topham-Kindley reports some of the South Island's PHOs are uncertain about their future in the new era of alliance relationships

A safety net for digital medicine

Thursday 01 December 2011, 10:48AM

Medical council chair John Adams outlines the council's review of telemedicine

S'thern Cross denies conflict of interest

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 2:36PM

Is there a conflict of interest in Southern Cross investing in general practices? Liane Topham-Kindley finds out.

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On the election trail

Saturday 01 October 2011, 11:07AM

The Buy Up of General Practice

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Covering the Christchurch earthquake

Tuesday 20 September 2011, 5:50PM
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Wellington GP and researcher Ben Gray talks to New Zealand Doctor reporter Virginia McMillan about the health inequity in the care of people with limited understanding of English

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Pass the parcel and don’t worry about the side effects

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Doctors and cigarettes - A bit of Fry and Laurie

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Ad hockery dogs general practice

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Getting it right for underperforming general practices

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Meadows and mentors

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It is in the ordinary that mistakes happen

It is in the ordinary that mistakes happen

Friday 16 December 2011, 1:17PM

I often refer to the mantra "read the notes, ask the questions, talk to the patient", Health and disability commissioner Antony Hill writes

Another day at a Soweto Clinic

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 5:17PM

Rural medicine stalwart Campbell Murdoch finds medical drama is all in a day's work at the Centre for Rural Health, faculty of health sciences, University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa

Keeping sceptical eye on all parties

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 2:42PM

Timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes (Beware the Greeks when they come bearing gifts) Tony Fitchett prescribes a healthy dose of political scepticism.

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National Party and Act Part Confidence and Supply Agreement

National PartyTuesday 06 December 2011, 10:32AM

Health & Disability Commissioner annnual report: Learning from complaints

Health & Disability CommissionerWednesday 23 November 2011, 3:05PM

Labour health policy paper

Labour PartyWednesday 09 November 2011, 8:58AM

Community Pharmacist-led Anticoagulation Management Service

The University of AucklandThursday 20 October 2011, 11:51AM
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