About one in five people report that having to wait too long for an appointment has put them off visiting a GP – nearly twice as many as the previous year, finds the latest annual New Zealand Health Survey
It was a bruising year for practice nurses and their employers, with parity funding falling far short of expectations. Next year will bring a pay equity claim. Fiona Cassie reports
A Christchurch GP says he’s sold his practice at least a decade before he plans to retire, concerned the upcoming retirement surge could see practice values fall as supply outstrips demand
Thousands of medical history items from sutures to speculums and the country’s first ECT machine could soon be homeless. Fiona Cassie visits Christchurch’s Cotter Medical History Museum
Health minister Shane Reti is non-committal about the Government funding the just-lodged pay equity claim for practice nurses, saying he is expecting official advice on this and other related issues
Pay equity claims for both practice nurses and administration staff have landed in the inboxes of more than 500 general practices and urgent care centres
It was a bruising year for practice nurses and their employers, with parity funding falling far short of expectations. Next year will bring a pay equity claim. Fiona Cassie reports
