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An Auckland practice has taken on COVID-19 vaccination for the good of the community, despite uncertainty about the financial viability of doing so 

It’s been a sharp corner for Bindi Nor­well to negotiate, steering her career from real estate to health

More than a third of general practices and a quarter of pharmacies expected to be giving COVID jabs from July, says Ministry of Health

A widely representative review of preferential-entry scheme considered unlikely to propose caps on student numbers 

The RNZCGP has suspended one of the three modules in its Cornerstone general practice accreditation scheme

The National Party has softened its op­position to the Government’s proposed Māori Health Authority, but not to what it calls a dual health system based on ethnicity

It’s been a sharp corner for Bindi Nor­well to negotiate, steering her career from real estate to health

The NZMA wants to break down the privileged status of the medical profession, by shoring up efforts to train many more doctors who are Māori or Pacific, or from rural backgrounds 

For efficiency, DHBs have begun to offer COVID-19 vaccination to all adults in some rural communities, marking a change from the original priority-group timings 

Auckland GP Jan White has opted not to take up the elected seat she won on the NZMA board. It will now instead go to the next highest-polling candidate, Christchurch GP Dermot Coffey