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Digi-physical health provider Tend has launched a new online 24/7 GP service, promoted via an advertising campaign fronted by Dame Valerie Adams

Lab workers from private lab provider Medlab are getting set for a new round of industrial action amid allegations the company is refusing to participate in negotiations

A $164 million four-year funding boost for urgent and after-hours care services has been dismissed as “window dressing” by an Auckland urgent-care provider, who says it falls far short of addressing systemic problems

Despite rumours that providers are lined up to deliver a new digital health service, Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is staying silent on whether any companies have been approved or if a tender process has even occurred

Practice management system provider MyPractice has announced a series of leadership changes following the sudden death of founder Ashwin Patel last month

Private pathology provider Awanui has been flying thousands of immunology samples a month from Auckland to Wellington following the breakdown of an analyser

Pathlab lab workers have settled with the company after voting to accept a 9 per cent pay rise backdated to April last year

A group of prominent New Zealanders are calling for a new social contract to ensure the country’s public health system is maintained in the face of what they call a move towards greater privatisation

Urgent-care clinics will see an increase in their ACC pricing of 0.8 per cent from 1 July, but the changes haven’t gone down well with the under-pressure sector

Comprehensive Care is back in the black after an improved performance in 2024, with chief executive Jacqueline Schmidt-Busby describing the year as “pretty good”