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Primary care will be facing a “tsunami” of elderly dying in two decades as death numbers nearly double, says a palliative care specialist

Patients living in rural locations are disadvantaged by a capitation model that doesn’t factor in their unique needs, says West Coast PHO chief executive Caro Findlay

A wahine toa, gracious lady and “rare gem” are some of the tributes paid to the much-loved rural, nursing and Māori health leader Rhoena Davis

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 

Primary care will be facing a “tsunami” of elderly dying in two decades as death numbers nearly double, says a palliative care specialist

The number of nurse practitioner trainees Te Whatu Ora will fund in 2025 is up in the air, leaving would-be NPs and their general practices in limbo

Patients living in rural locations are disadvantaged by a capitation model that doesn’t factor in their unique needs, says West Coast PHO chief executive Caro Findlay

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 worse abuse of any patient the GP had encountered, was found to be of “significant concern” 

A wahine toa, gracious lady and “rare gem” are some of the tributes paid to the much-loved rural, nursing and Māori health leader Rhoena Davis