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Māori and Pacific providers are bracing themselves for an increased workload once the Government’s plan to shift COVID-19 care into the community comes into effect

An already tired primary care workforce will bear the brunt of the government’s plan to shift care for COVID positive cases into the community

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.

Metro Auckland GPs are being offered $60 per phone call to boost efforts to contact unvaccinated Māori and Pacific patients.

The decision to allow routine vaccinations alongside COVID-19 shots is unlikely to prevent the country’s MMR stock from expiring before it is used.

Having taken the scenic route to becoming a GP, Rachel Mackie is still finding side roads impossible to resist.

The three-day Fijian and Rotuman vaccination event in Māngere is about aspiration and celebration

GPs in the metro Auckland region will be funded to make vaccination-related calls to their enrolled patients from today

A broad range of approaches with strong community input is needed to boost vaccine rates among Pacific communities, says GP and Tongan Health Society chief executive Glenn Doherty 

After emerging from online chat during the first COVID-19 lockdown, the Bubblegum youth programme is driving its first mass vaccination event this weekend in south Auckland