Stephen Forbes looks at a marae health venture through the eyes of its regular doctor, Ruba Harfeil, who left behind the Middle East for New Zealand in 2012
A GP’s failure to act on a patient’s CT scan results led to a delay of more than two-and-a-half years in her cancer diagnosis, the Health and Disability Commissioner has ruled
Te Whatu Ora had a 13 per cent response rate in its initial survey of patients’ waiting times for planned care, out of a total of 20,339 people contacted nationally
General Practitioners Aotearoa interim chair Buzz Burrell has described the Cabinet paper on the Government’s primary healthcare plans as “aspirational drivel”
A Cabinet paper discusses a work programme looking at how primary and community healthcare providers are funded, including settings for capitation funding
Limitations of treatments for depression have led to recent interest in the use of ketamine to treat the condition. But an editorial in the New Zealand Medical Journal urges caution against seeing the substance as a new quick fix
Laboratory testing provider Awanui/SCL Group is warning many of its collection centres will be closed in Wellington, the South Island and Hawke’s Bay from tomorrow
Te Whatu Ora’s waiting list review is expected to provide the agency with more detailed data on its waitlists and is a continuation of the work started by last year’s Planned Care Taskforce
