New Zealand Doctor team

This year, my family swapped our usual Christchurch staycation with a Christmas-week holiday in the Catlins

New Zealand Doctor/Rata Aotearoa reporters Fiona Cassie and Zahra Shahtahmasebi were in quite different places when they experienced the 22 February Christchurch earthquake. Fiona was editor of a national nursing newspaper; Zahra was in year 10 at school. With their fellow Cantabrians they have shared memories 

There is still much work to be done, but the gains in Māori health also need to be celebrated, says the doctor recog-nised with the highest honour in the New Year Honours list

This year, my family swapped our usual Christchurch staycation with a Christmas-week holiday in the Catlins

As a new community case of COVID-19 is announced, a testing station leader has expressed disappointment at how long it is taking to start vaccination of frontline quarantine and healthcare workers 

Sobia Imran is a specialist GP and co-owner of Lifeline Medical Centre in Ōtāhuhu. She is multilingual and speaks English, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi