The Simpson report’s focus on equitable outcomes for Māori and on Tiriti principles is welcomed, but will need resourcing and policy support to become reality, the Federation of Primary Health Aotearoa says
After more than a decade of quakes to mass shootings and now COVID-19, Rolleston GP Phil Schroeder has stepped down from leading Canterbury’s primary emergency response team
In unprecedented action more than 3400 practice nurses and administration staff are expected to walk off the job later this month for a two-hour stopwork meeting over the pay parity impasse
Twenty years ago, the forerunner of Southern Rehab began life in Canterbury with no contract and no patients, but a team approach to injury rehabilitation
I hate chopping vegetables. I’m slow, clumsy and quickly get bored. I know practice would probably help – a la Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia – but I really don’t like cooking enough to put in the effort
Patients saw red, and plenty of it, in general practices up and down the country on 19 June as the nurses’ union NZNO stepped up its campaign
for pay parity for practice nurses
