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The country’s biggest practice nurse contract talks will be resuming shortly with uncertainty being caused by the separate, but related, pay equity claim process

A proposal to scrap the ACC funding barrier hindering general practices from employing paramedics to deliver PRIME and injury treatment services is warmly welcomed by rural providers 

More people watched warily from cars than attended Raglan’s early rural outreach marae clinics

The “high risk” of psychiatric side effects has led Medsafe to call for the over-the-counter oral antihistamine, promethazine (brand name Phenergan) not to be used by children aged under six

The general practice crisis in the Far North has forced Kaitaia Hospital to coordinate and fund a primary care after-hours service on site for the past year

A longstanding Wānaka GP is not convinced a large “flashy” private hospital proposed for Wānaka is the answer to the fast-growing rural town’s health needs 

The ongoing severe shortage of oestradiol patches has a Napier GP calling for an interim special authority to prescribe subsidised gels for high-risk women hit by the inconsistent supplies 

Stressed doctors in earlier colonial New Zealand appeared to have God on their side...or at least the bishop

A working group has been hurriedly created this month in the lead-up to the 1 July annual capitation increase that is being awaited with “considerable pessimism” by primary care leaders

Stressed doctors in earlier colonial New Zealand appeared to have God on their side...or at least the bishop