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Deputy editor Patrice Dougan is all too familiar with urgent-care services that are at the centre of debate right now

More Pacific and Maori patients are receiving SMART therapy for asthma, while winter antibiotic usage is down, according to new data

Counties Medical opened a new purpose-built integrated health centre in south Auckland last month. The 560sqm medical centre is based in the Waiata Shores centre in Takanini, alongside a 148sqm radiology centre, which is operated by SRG Radiology

Emergency department data error, workforce issues and immunisations were among the topics covered in the latest Te Whatu Ora board meeting 

A collaboration with a community fitness programme, a trial of human papillomavirus selftesting kits and a family harm prevention initiative have all been lauded as highlights in Total Healthcare’s latest annual report

Interactive prescribing tool EPiC has released full 2022 data showing positive trends 

Free healthcare funding for patients displaced by deadly Cyclone Gabrielle has been extended until after Easter

"This is the climate health emergency writ large,” says a rural locum doctor working in hard-to-reach Wairoa in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle

The General Practice Leaders Forum will aim to meet every month this year, new chair Samantha Murton says

Antibiotic use has dropped by 31 per cent in Canterbury since 2012, but remains higher than in the UK and Europe, study finds