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Reporter Alan Perrott talks to an ex-cop who is devoting his life to delivering healthcare and change into the heart of Bay of Plenty’s gang culture

New approaches to identifying potential acute rheumatic fever cases were among the changes to national guidelines presented at the Goodfellow Symposium 2025

Mary Miller’s session at the 2025 Goodfellow Symposium could have been subtitled: “Physician, heal thyself.”

South Auckland-based Pasefika Medical Family Group has opened its third practice, aiming to reach a target of 10,000 enrolled patients by the end of the year

A Ministry of Health forecast of a 43.7 per cent increase in the number of Pacific doctors by 2034 relies on the retention of supportive enrolment schemes, says public health academic Sir Collin Tukuitonga 

The Waitangi Tribunal has rejected Crown arguments for delay and will proceed with the second half of its urgent hearing into the demise Te Aka Whai Ora on 26 May

Te Kōhao Health has signed a “declaration of intent” with Te Whatu Ora to provide community-based specialist care  

Racist patients weren’t what a diversity in healthcare panel expected to end up discussing at the Collaborative Aotearoa conference at the weekend

Vaccination programmes must reincorporate the lessons of COVID-19 to reduce the impact of childhood respiratory diseases

The failure of multiple governments to address inequities in bowel cancer screening has led to “the potentially avoidable death of thousands of New Zealanders”, says a New Zealand Medical Journal editorial