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Bill Douglas

Bill Douglas is a Wanganui GP. He has been an elected member of the Whanganui DHB board and is an enthusiastic writer of letters when an issue raises his ire.

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Quakes and shakes

By Bill DouglasMonday 06 September 2010, 10:59am

The big news of the week would have to be the Christchurch earthquake which gave 600 GPs, their partners and families what all would hope was their only experience of the big one and
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Numbers and games

By Bill DouglasThursday 02 September 2010, 10:25am

For the last month the hospital radiographers have been participating in rolling strikes that have disrupted services for patients, GPs, and hospitals. At a time of fiscal restraint when
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Elections, Armani and warfarin

By Bill DouglasMonday 23 August 2010, 12:41pm

The call for nominations for the local body elections has closed and as frequently happens there is a rush of last minute names thrown into the ring, many of whom would have been
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Junket and sweets

By Bill DouglasMonday 16 August 2010, 11:56am

The last weekend has been productively spent at an educational meeting at Wairakei Resort at what some may consider a drug company sponsored junket. There were some good informative
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Making it pay – general practice doing better?

By Bill DouglasMonday 09 August 2010, 11:35am

In 2006 the New Zealand Medical Journal published an analysis of the viability of general practice in rural Southland by Campbell Murdoch. (Making it pay and helping us stay: the viability of a
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How much can general practice funding be expected to cover?

By Bill DouglasMonday 02 August 2010, 1:53pm

The speech from the health minister Tony Ryall to the World Healthcare Networks conference last week sets the scene for pay cuts and wage and salary freezes for the health sector for the next
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Networking and cost containment

By Bill DouglasMonday 26 July 2010, 3:53pm

The inaugural World Healthcare Networks conference has just finished in Auckland. The current building of health networks, from solo practice integrated care centres up to transnational
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Prescribing and making it pay, again

By Bill DouglasMonday 19 July 2010, 11:49am

Ethicals Compendiums were always welcome prizes, pharmaceutical industry sponsored "competitions" and advertising. Online advertising popups are a constant pain, but the regular updates and
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End of PMS competition and tick-box lab forms?

By Bill DouglasMonday 12 July 2010, 2:28pm

Over the last few weeks, the RNZCGP has been seeking submissions on standardised requirements for practice management systems and has put out a discussion document with literally hundreds
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Unity, amity and abortion

By Bill DouglasMonday 05 July 2010, 10:11am

The Minister of Health is planning to have half the number of PHOs by the end of the year. The reduction in numbers will surely result in redundancies and probably reasonable pay outs for the
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