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Consumer health website Health Navigator is rolling out a series of animated videos to help people look after themselves and others with COVID-19

A hard-hit aged-care workforce is expected to struggle to manage sick residents if the Omicron variant takes off

The pandemic has created opportunities for primary care as well as putting it “under the pump”, says Vince Barry, the departing chief executive of Pegasus Health

I can’t recall that first day working from home. Paid work that is

Two PHOs have stepped in to temporarily fund after-hours nurse telephone triage for Canterbury general practices, after the DHB pulled the funding plug for most practices

Ashley Bloomfield is holding an emergency webinar this evening on the shift to phase 2 at the same time as GPs report IT hitches in the lead-up to the COVID-19 pandemic’s next stage 

Updated advice is being sought on when general practice staff can start using Ministry of Health-supplied N95 masks to protect themselves from asymptomatic COVID-19 infection, says RNZCGP medical director Bryan Betty 

A Manawatū village that lost its GP and general practice 15 years ago is, in a rare reversal, to open a new medical centre in April

Urgent care leaders say their services may face a ‘perfect storm’ if Omicron hits general practices hard and a rush of patients seek face-to-face acute care at after-hours clinics 

Once Clare Healy realised how many of her patients might have been sexually abused or assaulted, she couldn’t look back