Pat Neuwelt is a senior lecturer in public health in Auckland University's School of Population Health. Work under way toward Better Sooner More Convenient
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I wrote last week about the LECG report on the financial worth of practice nursing  which had missed the mark completely by excluding workforce development in the equation. Several
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Music reviews by David Doig Well strike me down, it's June already. Another New Zealand Music Month has inspired and exhaled. The concept is 10 years old now and perhaps is outliving its
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I was looking forward to reading Des Gorman¹s viewpoint (New Zealand Doctor, 19 May) given his reputation as a straight-shooting heavy hitter. Unfortunately, my eyes soon glazed over when I
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Sometimes, as those Rolling Stones so eloquently put it, you just might find you get what you need. Given recent events abroad, it seems fortuitous primary care has almost subversively put its
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Hans Raetz is a GP, and Richard Macharg is the chief executive, at the Queenstown Medical Centre After years of surveys, health workforce planning and a chronic case of committee-itis, we seem
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This Bondi Vet programme on Sunday night television is amazing. A private vet practice not only has ultrasound in the practice toolkit, it also has in house x-rays and, whoa, digitised films
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The economic consultancy firm LECG's recently released practice nurse report arrived surprisingly without so much as a murmur from nurses or GPs. Commissioned by the Ministry of Health to
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A few years ago, with previous health ministers, the day after the budget a large envelope would arrive at the practice outlining the proposed changes affecting our health, wealth
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I first heard it mentioned on National Radio - "government decision in the coming budget will use nurses in general practice to lead a medical revolution in healthcare". This "revolution"
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