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Martin Johnston takes a closer look at a recent coroner’s decision and its lessons for telehealth providers

High-needs patients in the back blocks of Te Tau Ihu, the top of the South Island, are being reconnected with general practices through the painstaking efforts of a Comprehensive Primary Care Team

An advisory group in the Kāpiti area of the lower North Island has released a paper supporting its push for a publicly provided integrated health centre in Paraparaumu 

New Zealand’s health system has come fourth in a ranking of 10 countries by US-based think tank the Commonwealth Fund 

GenPro is challenging the way increases in patient fees are reviewed, a process it say asks practices to reveal confidential revenue streams and potentially induces them to breach competition law

Journalist Martin Johnston finds a plan by Te Whatu Ora to get more GP trainees into Māori, Pacific and rural practices failed to consider the perverse incentives it would create; the RNZCGP objected

Never has a flat white tasted so sour as when a fees review committee was said to have urged a practice to set up a café to make some money

Journalist Martin Johnston finds a plan by Te Whatu Ora to get more GP trainees into Māori, Pacific and rural practices failed to consider the perverse incentives it would create; the RNZCGP objected

GenPro is challenging the way increases in patient fees are reviewed, a process it say asks practices to reveal confidential revenue streams and potentially induces them to breach competition law

Martin Johnston takes a closer look at a recent coroner’s decision and its lessons for telehealth providers