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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

Underfunding will see more rural practices follow Wellsford specialist GP Tim Malloy and pull out of overnight on-call and PRIME services, predicts rural health network leader Grant Davidson

The Medical Council elections are open, who are the six GPs trying to win your vote? Fiona Cassie finds out

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

Tributes were made to the tireless work of Fa’anānā Efeso Collins for Pacific communities after his sudden death last week