aperrott@nzdoctor.co.nz

It’s been a long week with a long weekend to follow for the Pacific providers dividing themselves between two vaccine rollouts and the Tongan relief effort

Rolling out a child vaccination programme that is accessible to parents returning to work and is safe for children requires a response that is “fleet of foot”, says Turuki Healthcare chief executive Te Puea Winiata 

A further seven Northland practices are set to leave Mahitahi Hauora, following the three that switched to Comprehensive Care PHO last August

Auckland-based Tongan healthcare providers are coordinating a response to the weekend’s massive eruption while also trying to contact relatives and friends 

A fair chunk of Ōtara’s homegrown COVID-19 response can be credited to the words of former All Black captain and nude model, Anton Oliver

Don’t wait for someone else to address inequities in health, start doing what you can in your own backyard, says clinical researcher and Auckland GP Matire Harwood

The bar was set at the first stop on the first day of South Seas Healthcare’s new mobile clinic

Mt Roskill GP registrar Vanisi Prescott, “the TikTok doctor”, knows the personal impact of good role models; she didn’t believe a job in medicine was possible until she saw Samoan GP Debbie Ryan in a white coat

Northland DHB chief executive Nick Chamberlain can see big changes on the horizon for the health sector, and says COVID-19 has shown him the wagon they will ride in on

If COVID-19 has an upside, it’s that when things get really quiet, they can also get that much more personal