After more than a year of failed negotiations with their employers, 4200 primary care and Plunket nurses took strike action across the country last month
Fiona Cassie reports the review of capitation funding appears to have got caught up in discussions about new arrangements for the broader primary and community care sector
Mobile Health, which provides surgical and other services in its mobile surgical unit, has had its contract extended by three years to June 2025 by Te Whatu Ora
The fearless voice and tireless lobbying for nurses and nurse practitioners were highlighted at a celebration marking the retirement of Jenny Carryer from the College of Nurses Aotearoa
Māori make less use of primary care than non-Māori – saving the sector millions of dollars a year – and GP leaders say inadequate staffing and resourcing are implicated
A server failure has forced Pegasus Health to revert to a manual roster system for the hundreds of GPs and locums rostered to work at Christchurch’s largest after-hours and urgent care service
To make recruiting overseas GPs easier, Marlborough PHO has become the employer of migrant GPs for some of its practices, says chief executive Beth Tester
A pilot offering would-be rural doctors “the bulk” of their medical training locally is sought by the Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network as one solution to the rural workforce crisis
