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Long-standing network gives way to new rural health advocate

A pilot is being explored that may lift GP numbers and help reduce the log-jam of migrant doctors needing hospital internships, by offering some of them training in general practice instead

Practices are under the pump but if you fund them adequately they are still ready to the “do the right thing” this winter, believes GP and Pinnacle medical director Jo Scott-Jones 

Oceania Healthcare signed a funding contract with its fourth PHO this year as it rolls out its own nurse practitioner-led primary care service

Influenza is circulating nationwide but it is still too early to predict the pattern or likely severity of the disease this season, says Wellington GP and Immunisation Advisory Centre director Nikki Turner

Hokianga health leader welcomes the chance to help reconfigure the health system – not just tweak it at the edges 

I confess, as a North Islander, it took me a little while to warm to my adopted city but, after 25-plus years, I’m now the clichéd one-eyed Cantabrian

Uncertainty about PHOs' role in the long term hasn’t deterred two Canterbury general practices from seeking to change PHOs this year

Influenza is circulating nationwide but it is still too early to predict the pattern or likely severity of the disease this season, says Wellington GP and Immunisation Advisory Centre director Nikki Turner

Oceania Healthcare signed a funding contract with its fourth PHO this year as it rolls out its own nurse practitioner-led primary care service