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The number of babies and toddlers hospitalised with respiratory infections at Middlemore Hospital this winter plummeted from the usual 1000 to less than 200. 

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

Planned Care should be bringing more services out of hospitals and into primary care, but COVID-19 has intervened

An extra subsidy was paid to Auckland after-hours providers during the recent level 3 lockdown as they were a “critical component” to the city’s COVID testing strategy 

Practice nurses are considering further strike action over the lack of urgency in funding pay parity

Planned Care should be bringing more services out of hospitals and into primary care, but COVID-19 has intervened

Whanau Ora Community Clinic’s family subscription of $2 a week is proving popular among patients – but not with some of the competing providers

Stephen McKernan’s leadership on the next set of health-sector reforms will be part of a $2 million-plus contract between the Government and consultancy firm EY

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

A nurse-led after-hours clinic opened in Masterton last month when founder Trish Wilkinson took the plunge after a four-year struggle to make her dream a reality