A successful challenge by Hauora Taiwhenua means rural general practices are now eligible for up to $20,000 relocation costs to help recruit overseas GPs
Healthline nurses are considering further industrial action after rejecting a pay offer that would mean some experienced nurses earn less than new graduates in public hospitals
Shifting scarce mental health resources into the community to treat people with mild psychological distress is “short-sighted and unjust”, says Christchurch psychiatrist Roger Mulder
A call for more GPs to classify and code patients with long COVID is backed by researcher Anna Brooks, who is worried about the lack of local data on the post-viral illness
Shifting scarce mental health resources into the community to treat people with mild psychological distress is “short-sighted and unjust”, says Christchurch psychiatrist Roger Mulder
A call for more GPs to classify and code patients with long COVID is backed by researcher Anna Brooks, who is worried about the lack of local data on the post-viral illness
An ‘alarming’ 55-plus per cent of Canterbury GPs and practice nurses are looking to retire or leave in the next few years, according to a Canterbury Clinical Network survey
The health risk from blood shortages is now much higher than the risk of getting variant Creutzfeldt-Jackob disease from transfusions, public health expert Michael Baker says
After two years of bargaining, practice nurses have voted to accept a new pay deal that brings some relief but is not expected to stem the flow of those getting higher-paid jobs in public hospitals
