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Primary care is hopping with anticipation at the imminent release of a major review it hopes will improve healthcare funding, structures and relationships

Advocacy, a unified voice, advancing the health of the population – these are the kinds of things national general practice and primary care organisations promise their members

Lack of national unity over COVID-19 contact tracing has fuelled calls for the recreation of a central public health agency 

The numbers – New Zealand, 26 May - 1504 confirmed and probable cases

The Budget gave the health and disability sector a modest increase, with DHBs coming out the winners and primary care left uncertain about its prospects

Advocacy, a unified voice, advancing the health of the population – these are the kinds of things national general practice and primary care organisations promise their members

Ahead of the Heather Simpson-led review’s release, a flurry of papers positioning primary healthcare fluttered into New Zealand Doctor

How general practice might change at Alert Level 1 

Following the influenza vaccine “debacle”, GP leaders are calling for exclusive early-season general practice access to the vaccine for at-risk patients 

For GP Allan Moffitt, the high point of the pandemic has been the rapid response of general practice to the call to go virtual