'You're fired.' Barring callers is a last resort for some health helplines

IN PRINT: When people call the Government’s helplines, they don’t expect to be unable to connect because their phone number has been blocked

RACP: make good work the norm

Community dementia service shifts to CCCN

Call to combine gout and diabetes testing 

The People’s Review of Renting launched: telling the human stories behind the rental housing crisis

Health minister Jonathan Coleman has dropped a hint of behind-the-scenes developments with the widely disparaged Very Low Cost Access subsidy

From front line to storyline: Creating medical mayhem on Shortland Street

Euthanasia, medical marijuana, social determinants of health, youth suicide –Shortland Street has been tackling the big topics for 25 years. Aaron van Delden talks to a nurse who ditched her scrubs to help bring these burning issues to New Zealand television screens

FIT tests and biopsies: Bringing bowel cancer prevention to the masses

After five years of trialling and planning, New Zealand starts to see bowel screening introduced to the wider population this month. General practice is crucial to the success of the programme. Virginia McMillan finds out what it means for practices and their older patients

Halfway there for Glenview Medical’s $5 million practice expansion journey

A Hamilton practice is halfway through its journey towards a new home, having moved into its partially completed new premis­es built next to its old site

Another 30-something takes the leap into practice ownership at Springlands

First there were two, now there are three 30-something women owners of Springlands Health Centre in Blenheim

Budget 2017

Wisdom through the ages

Interactive map of practice ownership

Budget 2016 on 26 May

The Zika virus

'Spend day in our shoes' - ODT

A doctor’s murder over an opioid prescription leaves an Indiana city with no easy answers - Stat News

Sexual assault may trigger involuntary paralysis - Scientific American

NHS finally agrees to fund HIV prevention treatment after losing legal battle - Telegraph (UK)

First hints Parkinson's can be stopped - BBC News

Health minister Jonathan Coleman is right about the small size of the DHBs’ deficits, but, nevertheless, heavy pressure about them is exerted behind the scenes, writes Ian Powell

Do we need a more personalised approach to immunisation consent?

How does the public conversation affect parents looking for a balanced view in terms of immunisation information, asks Bronwen Warren

Healthcare Aotearoa reconfirms purpose: Advocating for high-need communities

Healthcare Aotearoa has reconfirmed its fundamental purpose to advocate for and protect the wellbeing of high-needs communities and the model of integrated, community-based healthcare provision that supports them