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New Zealand Doctor provides GPs and many others in the health sector with their only source of up-to-date news about primary care. It is a must-read for anyone wanting to keep up with the ever-changing landscape in the health sector.

Our team of experienced health reporters and clinical contributors report on the issues affecting GPs in every aspect of their professional capacity: health politics, clinical developments and business management. In a more light-hearted vein, a lifestyle section provides articles ranging from wine and film, to travel and humour.

Frequency : 24 issues per year, published Wednesday, every fortnight except January (see schedule)

Circulation :  3000

Subscribers include GPs, GP registrars, GP locums, practice nurses, practice managers and a broad range of specialists, primary care practitioners, allied health professionals, PHO officials, DHB managers, lawyers, accountants and NGOs.

Editorial archives

Access to New Zealand Doctor story archives from 1996-present day is available free to subscribers through the Knowledge Basket.. More recent print content is available on www.nzdoctor.co.nz under 'In Print'.

Website

New Zealand Doctor's website provides daily health news and access to a wide range of background news material, GP and patient resources, and online free classifieds.

Becoming a subscriber

GPs - New Zealand Doctor is available to GPs only at a discounted rate of $169 as part of a combined subscription with MIMS New Ethicals drug directory.

Non GPs - The full subscription rate for New Zealand Doctor is $187 for 24 issues. Subscription forms are included in the Media kit 2013

For further subscription queries contact Helen Roos on 09-488 4296 or email Helen Roos

Editorial content

News
Written by staff journalists and correspondents:

  • local medical and political news
  • medical research news
  • primary care sector news

Opinion
Written by the editor, contributors and readers:

  • editorial
  • letters to the editor
  • parliamentary column and viewpoints
  • health ethics, law and policy
  • newsletters from RNZCGP, NZMA GP Council, ASMS, General Practice NZ, Rural General Practice Network and the New Zealand College of Primary Health Care Nurses NZNO

Practice
Written by GPs and specialists practising in each of these areas:

  • sports medicine
  • nutrition
  • occupational health
  • elder health
  • medical defence
  • dermatology
  • sexual health
  • travel medicine
  • child health
  • clinical updates on topical issues
  • clinical book reviews

How to Treat
In alternate issues GP experts and specialists discuss in detail the treatment of a particular clinical condition.

Business
Written by staff journalists, business writers and columnists:

  • practice management
  • human resources
  • computing and internet
  • website reviews
  • app reviews

After hours
Travel, wine, history, books, humour, music

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