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News of the inaugural New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora has been greeted with excitement from the sector 

Nelson ophthalmologist Derek Sherwood uses himself as an example of the pitfalls of over-testing and overtreatment in healthcare

Doctors will get complaints – they are a fact of life – and the best protection is knowing how vulnerable you are, says Australian public health physician and health lawyer Marie Bismark

Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Chang­ing Magic of Tidying Up will never be a set text for GP registrars, but that didn’t stop its merits being touted at their breakfast event at the RNZCGP conference

She was the accidental doctor who couldn’t be a police officer or a vet, then became a journalist, before hav­ing a crack at medicine

ACC is seeking to appeal a High Court decision that extended coverage to people who contracted mesothelioma outside a workplace

If opening a new practice is hard enough, Lung Choi is also targeting his Grafton Medical Centre at a specific community

A series of doctors at Capital & Coast DHB provided poor care to a woman later found to have a brain tumour says health & disability commissioner Anthony Hill 

Saturday’s Māori nursing awards were as much about celebrating the collective as the individual achievement 

PHOs and general practices have been left dumbfounded at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s decision to close a well-used interpreter service and replace it with another they cannot easily access