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Māori health and proposed Māori Health Authority were up for discussion in the second of New Zealand Doctor’s Popcorn Panels 

A petition has been launched by the Ōpōtiki community calling for the Government to adopt the “alternate view” published in the final report of the Health and Disability System Review and create a Māori Health Authority with full commissioning rights 

Day care centres are a useful place for reaching healthcare-shy whānau, says Rotorua GP Alastair McLean

Former Napier GP Medhane Mesgena has been censured and fined over failures in his assessment of 12-year-old victim of sexual assault

The partners in a kaupapa Māori project providing health and social services support to former prisoners and their whānau are looking for new funding to expand their efforts 

The GP has been censured, fined $7,500 and ordered to pay costs of $22,500 by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal 

The first paper to emerge from a community-directed research programme, a review of gout treatment, was published this week in the British Journal of General Practice Open 

A Kāinga Ora public housing development opened in Māngere yesterday is being criticised for unsafe driveways and the lack of access for people with disabilities 

RNZCGP conference Health Aotearoa 2020 set to go ahead in Auckland in November 

Critics are firing plenty of ammunition at the Maori Health Authority proposal contained in the final report of the Health and Disability System Review