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A shocking number of GPs will be gone from primary care in five years. The health reformers have nothing to head off this disaster but there may still be time, writes Barbara Fountain

HR contractors will be helping to run planned job restructuring at Te Whatu Ora

Eighty-one new positions are proposed for the commissioning arm of the revised Te Whatu Ora structure, but 530 are earmarked to be disestablished. 

Former Te Whatu Ora chair Rob Campbell describes as a “critical error” the rolling out of health reforms without a new funding model for primary care 

Plans for a revamped National Public Health Service are contained in a consultation document released to staff by Te Whatu Ora yesterday 

Barbara Fountain rues the ruckus that led to the dismissal of a man who was not your usual health boss

Barbara Fountain rues the ruckus that led to the dismissal of a man who was not your usual health boss

Thanks to COVID, Christmas and floods, it has been a while between outings for the System Fix regular panellists; independent health policy consultant Gabrielle Baker, University of Auckland health policy professor Tim Tenbensel and me

Pharmac has today released its final response to the Pharmac Review, an independent review of the medicines purchasing agency

Editor Barbara Fountain wonders what happened to the promise of 2023