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Medsafe won't disclose details of who it is reviewing to see whether their professional medicinal cannabis “activities” comply with regulations

Primary care leaders want to see the Budget this month address record inflation, close the nurses’ pay gap, continue investment in Māori health, and signal a new primary care funding system

Medsafe won't disclose details of who it is reviewing to see whether their professional medicinal cannabis “activities” comply with regulations

The first medicinal cannabis clinic to open outside of Auckland is one of a growing number of niche providers dedicated to prescribing legal cannabis products

The likely liquidation of conference partner NZMA came as a shock but has no financial impact on the GP CME conferences, which are still going ahead as planned, says organiser Leon Olsen 

The New Zealand Medical Journal has been guaranteed three months’ funding while its future ownership is worked out 

Health Minister Andrew Little offers little hope of a quick funding response to the looming $20,000 pay gap between an experienced practice nurse and their DHB counterpart 

The West Coast’s “rural generalist approach” and its COVID-19 response are among key reasons for it being named a locality prototype, believes West Coast DHB general manager Philip Wheble 

Two of the handful of DHBs that own and run general practices are heavily subsidising the running costs of these businesses

A small but growing number of GPs is training to provide assisted-dying services solely for their own patients, says Kristin Good, registrar of the Assisted Dying Service at the Ministry of Health