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Te Aka Whai Ora chief medical officer Rawiri McKree Jansen has returned to general practice after resigning from the soon-to-be disestablished Māori Health Authority

The Australian-based doctor rating website Whitecoat, which caused a stir when it launched in 2018, has quietly quit New Zealand

Suzanne Wolton has been appointed as the new chief executive of Medical Assurance Society

Selling the practice she’s had a stake in for 20 years was a tough decision, but the right one to secure its long-term future, says Auckland specialist GP Patti Piper

Non-registered health workers lacking a common provider number will not have access to patient data when the first stage of the multi-million-dollar Hira programme goes live in July

Rory Nairn should have been told of the possibility of myocarditis as a side-effect of the Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine by the pharmacist who administered it, says the HDC

An open letter from a group of staff from Awanui Lab to the minister of health and Te Whatu Ora paints a damning picture of the problems in the sector

OmniHealth has decided to sell its stake in a practice in the small Taranaki town of Waitara because it couldn’t get the GPs needed to staff it

New provisional data from Te Whatu Ora shows the number of people waiting for a first specialist assessment is up 14.5 per cent in the 12 months to 31 March 

Work by Te Whatu Ora to reduce waiting lists for orthopaedic elective surgery appears to be paying dividends, with the number of people waiting longer than a year for treatment declining.