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The shock of the Whakaari/White Island eruption continues to affect the survivors and their families, as well as rescuers and medical practitioners

First deadline missed for resolving Te Tiriti o Waitangi breaches in primary care

East Care Accident & Medical is seeking to have funding reinstated so it’s no longer making a loss on patients attending after 11pm

Convicted sex offender and former Christchurch GP Rakesh Chawdhry has been struck off by the New Zealand Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal

East Care Group expects to present its case for a Botany-based health hub to the Counties Manukau DHB board in the next few months 

In a first for Auckland, a nurse practitioner and nurse leader have opened their own VLCA practice 

Declaring New Zealand measles-free in October 2017 now seems the height of optimism

“Subtle and gentle, but in an immovable kind of way.”

How is it that, despite several decades of market forces and funding overhauls, the words “primary healthcare” and “competi­tion” still sit together uneasily?

Kate Baddock on her life as a kitten whisperer, stage protégée, boys’ school dux and boarding-house mother, to actual mother, chair of everything and, most proudly of all, a rural GP