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Delays in settling Te Whatu Ora funding for GP registrar training in 2025 are creating a “significant amount of job insecurity” for potential GPs, says a doctors’ union leader

Queenstown and Wānaka practices report losing potential patients to government-funded telehealth GPs when their own after-hours services are available

Practice nurses are meeting urgently this month to discuss next steps after the primary care sector’s largest nurse pay talks predictably stalled over lack of funding

Funding for the 2025 nurse practitioner training programme remains unknown, but providers have the go-ahead to ask potential NP trainees to sign up

A GP’s care of a highly vulnerable and traumatised woman, who had suffered the worst abuse of any patient the GP had encountered, was found to be of “significant concern”, a Health and Disability Commissioner report found

An autumn concert of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” led to the spring gift of two new wheelchairs for Hanmer Springs Health Centre 

A legal challenge over the Medical Council’s 2021 guidance statement on the COVID-19 vaccine and anti-vax claims was underway in the High Court at Wellington today 

Funding for urgent care registrar training in 2025 is in limbo with the training body waiting to hear if its request for new workplace training funding is successful 

Four out of five NHS England general practices are now taking some form of collective action in a bid to stop the “collapse” of general practice, says a UK GP leader 

Details of how and when Plunket nurses will step into providing childhood immunisations are still being finalised, say Plunket and Te Whatu Ora leaders