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A specialist GP, one of six doctors temporarily suspended by the Medical Council over COVID-19 vaccine concerns, appealed her suspension in the Wellington District Court late last month

The number of specialist GPs practising in the country grew by 65 in the past year, up on last year’s shocking 15

The country’s first-ever strategy for improving rural health was released last week just as researchers were publicising their findings on the higher death rates of rural compared with urban people

Auckland locums are being flown to Christchurch at a “significant cost” to cover urgent care shifts

Moorhouse Medical, one of Christchurch’s three urgent care clinics, is having to close its doors at 4pm due to understaffing in the midst of record patient demand in the city

Pegasus Health announced today that Kim Sinclair-Morris, the current Canterbury Clinical Network executive director, is to be its new chief executive

A south Auckland general practice business has been put into liquidation by Inland Revenue for unpaid taxes

Overseas GP recruiters are reporting steady and slow pipeline interest in GPs coming here but no post-pandemic surge to match the high vacancies and demand from general practices

High demand last night forced the 24 Hour Surgery in Christchurch for the first time to close its doors to non-urgent patients for nearly three hours

The general practice space in Rolleston’s $14.7 million health hub lies empty a year after the hub opened. And no tenant has been signed up, despite patient demand being high in the fast-growing town