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Mandatory indoor mask use and effective ventilation must be hardwired into Alert Level 2 of New Zealand’s alert system, says epidemiologist Michael Baker

Practices have been screaming for extra staff to help meet the workload created by the Delta outbreak, says the National Hauora Coalition’s primary care network leader, Jonathan Murray

Certainty around Pfizer vaccination rates for Māori is difficult due to failings in the Ministry of Health’s collection of ethnicity data, says Donna Cormack, Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā member

East Auckland’s East Health Trust PHO will soon have opened two new practices within six months

The standards of the RNZCGP Foundation programme are set to be accepted into the eligibility process for practices wanting to provide COVID-19 vaccinations

Fono chief executive Tevita Funaki is in self-isolation as the Pacific provider ramps up its response to the Delta outbreak despite increasing workforce pressure

From next year – if RNZCGP president Samantha Murton was health minister – every house surgeon would spend three months working in general practice

The Government must pause the roll out of second Pfizer vaccines to the general population and prioritise getting first doses to Māori and Pacific Peoples says Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā

There are now seven confirmed cases in the Delta variant with all being connected to the growing New South Wales outbreak, and more announced this evening

Three Whangārei practices have left Mahitahi Hauora to join Comprehensive Care PHO, and more may soon follow