With COVID making its impact on the New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa team, southern correspondent Fiona Cassie was our sole reporter at this year’s 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
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
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
With COVID making its impact on the New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa team, southern correspondent Fiona Cassie was our sole reporter at this year’s South GP CME
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
The country’s handful of American-trained physician associates has trebled since the pandemic and more are keen to work in New Zealand, says physician associate Shelly Collins
