Child poverty campaigner disappointed with Budget

At least $40 million a year is needed to feed hungry children, an education professor told attendees at a post Budget Child Poverty Action Group meeting today

Mixed views ahead of DSM-5 launch

Australian experts discuss the implications of the DSM-5, which is being released next week

Campaign to focus on patient safety launches

A national patient safety campaign focusing on reducing harm in key areas was launched today.

A GP voice in top-of-the-south hospitals review

General practice will be represented on the clinically led project group being established to look at how hospital services can be better provided in Nelson and Marlborough

Vitamin C not a therapy for gout

Vitamin C should not be used as a therapy to lower uric acid levels in gout patients, latest research from the University of Otago shows

Food in Schools for our future

Campaign For Food In Schools Eyes Budget Announcements (Every Child Counts)

Canterbury DHB welcomes National Patient Safety Campaign

What makes Canterbury feel all right? Look at a bus shelter!

David Russell to oversee independent review

They love you, they love you not: DHBs and primary care

Are DHBs walking the talk when it comes to embracing the primary healthcare sector? Liane Topham-Kindley takes a look.

Sounding out the three Heffords: a GP, a DHB man and a PHO boss

The saying "It runs in the family" couldn't be more true of the talented Heffords

Company founded in son's memory

Nearly four years on from the untimely death of their son, an Auckland family is celebrating the first birthday of a pharmaceuticals company they founded in his memory

Neighbours buddy up after earthquake

The two years since the major Canterbury earthquake have been tough for New Brighton GPs Gerry and Kim Burgess, but they are set to begin a new chapter in their general practice careers, Liane Topham-Kindey reports

Budget 2013

PHO contract

Getting connected at the NZ Rural General Practice Network Conference 2013

Primary Thinking podcast series transcripts

Serious and sentinel events data 2011/2012

Pills tracked from doctor to patient to aid drug marketing - New York Times

Embryonic stem cells: Advance in medical human cloning - BBC

Health board responds with physio compromise - Taranaki Daily Times

More Canterbury children in crisis - The Press

Doctor helps people to avoid dementia - 3News

Turning our backs

Health Care Aotearoa national coordinator Muriel Tunoho raises some red flags about new funding approaches being floated with the new PHO contract and its associated quality and incentive programme

Time to get serious about unmet need

Christchurch surgeon Philip Bagshaw suggests it is time to disperse the fog of opinion with the clearing wind of hard data when it come to elective surgery