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Approved community CT scans for head injuries in Canterbury have skyrocketed, but they’re not picking up more abnormalities

Physician associates first sought to become regulated health practitioners in 2017 and now want to see progress

A Kaikōura GP and local health team have been praised for their care of the survivors of the weekend’s boating tragedy 

For the first time, rural GPs and nurses will be able to claim fees for attending PRIME medical emergencies as well as accidents 

How to create a “rural workforce explosion” to avert the rural health crisis was the opening theme of the first National Rural Health Conference since the launch of the new Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network 

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

Growing a local Māori primary health workforce is being given a financial helping hand in hard-to-staff Northland with an “earn as you learn” scheme for would-be en­rolled nurses

Rural Māori experience worse health outcomes than urban Māori, but the inequities are greater between Māori and non-Māori wherever they live, says senior Māori health researcher and specialist GP Sue Crengle

General practice needs to be the trusted coordinator of vaccination for the enrolled and, when possible, the unenrolled too, particularly babies, Nikki Turner told conference delegates at South GP CME

No amount of mask-wearing at schools or booster vaccinations for children will protect adults from COVID-19, says Peter McIntyre, a Uni­versity of Otago academic and member of WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation