New Zealand hosting next year’s world conference for rural GPs is a “huge opportunity” for rural communities to access international rural expertise, says specialist GP Fiona Bolden
For more than a decade, Waikato’s Tui Medical group has quietly been helping dozens of overseas-trained doctors break into the system through its medical assistant programme. Reporter Fiona Cassie speaks to the owner about its success
A High Court challenge has unsuccessfully argued that the Medical Council’s 2021 guidance statement on the COVID-19 vaccine and anti-vax claims was unlawful
Successive governments say they are prioritising primary healthcare, but the sector’s funding share is static and has even fallen in real terms, says a Victoria University of Wellington study
Halting plans this year to reweight capitation funding for ethnicity, rurality, age, deprivation and morbidity to better reflect patient need has frustrated and disappointed GP leaders
Public health doctors can “absolutely” still provide “technical advice” on healthy eating and any public health matter, says National Public Health Service director Nick Chamberlain, but submissions need sign-of from his office in the wake of the minister’s new expectations
An ongoing increase in families declining childhood vaccines has emerged in the latest quarterly report on PHO performance, at the same time as a slight increase in immunisation rates
