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Hauora Hokianga has temporarily closed some of its satellite clinics and two of its hospital beds as it focuses on caring for an average of 250 active cases a day, says the remote Northland provider’s medical director Mark Lankshear

ProCare has bought a 20,000 patient practice and urgent-care centre in west Auckland after entering a competitive tender with other prospective buyers

Additional funding is vital to close the growing pay parity gap between practice and DHB nurses and to stop a practice nurse exodus, argues a joint employer and union briefing paper to the health minister

Health minister Andrew Little bagged columnist Barbara Docherty in Parliament’s question time yesterday over her blog on nzdoctor.co.nz criticising his Government’s mental wellbeing approach 

Three general practices are being supported by redeployed staff from Canterbury DHB as the region’s Omicron outbreak appears to peak 

A draft report on the capitation funding formula is being reviewed and may be released in due course, says Health and Disability Review Transition Unit director Stephen McKernan

Fiona Cassie wonders how many of us entering lockdown in late March 2020 imagined that the peak (we hope) of our pandemic would come two years later

Journalist Fiona Cassie wonders how many of us entering lockdown in late March 2020 imagined that the peak (we hope) of our pandemic would come two years later

A draft report on the capitation funding formula is being reviewed and may be released in due course, says Health and Disability Review Transition Unit director Stephen McKernan

With flu’s imminent arrival, and Omicron’s likely long tail, a new community sentinel surveillance system for all respiratory viruses is planned for this winter