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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

West Coast GP Martin Smith is delighted to have avoided closing the solo practice he founded in Westport seven years ago

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

The annual capitation increase will be compulsorily imposed for the second year running after general practice negotiators “reject” a tweaked offer

The practice nurse pay talks stalled, as expected, over lack of funding for pay parity and were entering mediation as New Zealand Doctor went to press

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

West Coast GP Martin Smith is delighted to have avoided closing the solo practice he founded in Westport seven years ago

Flu surveillance data shows calls to Healthline about child cough and cold symptoms doubled in the week before the country was alerted of the country’s COVID-19 border control failure