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Te Whatu Ora is projecting a slight fall in practice nurse numbers over the next decade despite forecasting 10 per cent growth in the overall nursing workforce

Te Whatu Ora is projecting a slight fall in practice nurse numbers over the next decade despite forecasting 10 per cent growth in the overall nursing workforce

Every hour a GP spends face-to-face with patients generates at least 30 minutes of clinical follow-up work, a ground-breaking GP diary study has confirmed

Short staffing at the new Te Whatu Ora health facility in Westport forced it to close its acute services for a weekend last month and is causing long waits for routine GP appointments

The news that the innovative Canterbury Clinical Network will end next month as funding comes to a halt is greeted with sadness by leading Christchurch specialist GP Les Toop

The growth in nurse practitioners prompts the profession’s national body to release its first position statement on the NP role

Every hour a GP spends face-to-face with patients generates at least 30 minutes of clinical follow-up work, a ground-breaking GP diary study by the RNZCGP has confirmed

A memorandum of understanding has been signed, kicking off a business case into a third medical school, but is it the answer to workforce shortages? Fiona Cassie reports

A capitation review update is being requested for when the general practice sector’s contract talks forum finally reconvenes in March for the first time in 21 months

The RNZCGP is criticising a Te Whatu Ora media release for being misleading about NP and GP scopes, but nurse leaders say the rebuke is a distraction to more significant issues facing health