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A national policy for rural hospi­tals that recognises unique rural needs is urgently needed, says rural hospital medicine specialist Katharina Blattner

Practice provides seamless response to boating tragedy

Community Services Card holders make up about 20 per cent of patients using an after-hours video-doctor service offered by 130 general practices, the National Rural Health Conference was told

Today’s practice nurse pay talks were deferred due to no change on the funding front and national stopwork meetings are planned instead, says NZNO spokeswoman Danielle Davies 

COVID-19 is not over but the plateauing of cases means today was the last routine, live COVID-19 media conference after 300-plus briefings, says Public Health Agency deputy director-general Andrew Old

“Cognitive bias” along with triage and communication issues led to a five-hour delay in an urgent care centre diagnosing a heart attack in a patient 

Talking to whānau about what went right, not wrong, in their loved one’s cancer diagnosis is the focus of a general practice-iwi re­search partnership which was recently launched in Whanganui

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zea­land has suggested general practices put their COVID-care profits towards pay parity for practice nurses

News that a cheaper and quicker registration path for overseas-trained nurses is on the way is being welcomed by the aged-care sector

Talking to whānau about what went right, not wrong, in their loved one’s cancer diagnosis is the focus of a general practice-iwi re­search partnership which was recently launched in Whanganui