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A Christchurch GP honoured for being an early driving force behind Pegasus Health says he can’t foresee PHOs’ future but believes patients and practitioners have benefited from Pegasus’ existence

Christchurch infectious diseases researcher and New Year Honours recipient Steve Chambers says its inspiring to see how goodwill and marshalling resources made inroads in managing COVID-19

The number of GPs recognised in the New Year Honours is fantastic recognition for the specialty says one of the recipients, GP leader Tim Malloy 

A new Christchurch practice, forced to close its books after six months because of lack of space, has opened in bigger, purpose-built premises 

Four GPs feature in a baker’s dozen of doctors honoured in the New Year Honours list, along with a host of health academics, researchers and workers 

At any one time, about 10,000 people reside in prisons in New Zealand, says Corrections’ clinical director for the southern region, Jill Thomson

Māori provider nurses, waiting in line for pay parity after practice nurses, are increasingly frustrated their own 25 per cent pay gap with DHB nurses is still unresolved more than a decade on 

The year 2020 had such a nice ring about it. But thoughts of 20:20 clarity have receded as this year has brought the unexpected for GPs and nurses – professionally and financially

Merle Samuels recalls as a child waiting one day with her mother in the doctor’s surgery. Time and again, patients who had arrived after them got called in to see the GP before they did

International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020 celebrations were overshadowed this year