Once again a COVID-19 related bumper year for Healthline saw its co-owner Pegasus Health make a healthy surplus despite the network’s PHO and health services arms making a loss
General practices are tired but are ready to view Super Saturday on 16 October as one of the last hills in a marathon race to vaccinate the country, says GP leader Jo Scott-Jones
More than 50 submissions about local primary care initiatives have been received by the Health and Disability Review Transition Unit as it works towards selecting locality prototypes for 2022
Primary care nurses and practices return to wage bargaining in November as they wait to see whether DHB nurses accept an offer that will create a new $5000 pay gap between sectors
A last push is on for doctors to sign up to an open letter supporting COVID-19 vaccination, with nurses and pharmacists also now well down the track with their open vax support letters
In a post-COVID world, practices can no longer decide to “cherry-pick” which parts of the patient journey to deliver digitally, argues patient portal pioneer Sanjeewa Samaraweera.
A last push is on for doctors to sign up to an open letter supporting COVID-19 vaccination, with nurses and pharmacists also now well down the track with their open vax support letters
After more than a year of anxious waiting today’s announcement of a new residency pathway is welcomed as providing more certainty for migrant doctors and recruiters
