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Whakarongorau Aotearoa is launching a platform to let Healthline triage staff book appointments for callers they recommend see a GP 

The Ministry of Health has begun a fresh round of restructuring, nine months after the last one finished  

The 2022 Sapere report has become a test piece for ministers of health and Simeon Brown says he has read it, is committed to it, and offered his $95 million funding boost as evidence 

The ‘mail’ has finally got through, confirming that a key contract for supplying rural locums lives on for another year 

When Audrey Sonerson took the top job at the Ministry of Health, she instantly became responsible for all its work, good, bad or indifferent

A second corporate general practice owner says it will look at whether to create its own PHO after that new door was opened yesterday with the announcement that Tend Health has been approved to do it 

Self-described health-system disruptor Tend Health has delivered another jolt, announcing today it has been approved to become its own PHO 

The health reform weather forecast never predicted the primary care cyclone that has now made landfall in the Bay of Plenty, with storm fronts flicking out around the rest of New Zealand

Government ministers have been accused by a wide range of healthcare and other organisations of “inappropriate political interference”, resulting in the withholding of updated clinical guidelines for gender-affirming care – apparently because of controversy surrounding puberty blocker drugs 

Confirmation letters over the future of a key contract for supplying rural locums are in the mail – echoing a minister’s reassuring conference comments