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A software system designed to speed up the process for GPs to refer patients to other specialists and health providers has made more than six million referrals

The RNZCGP has ruled out making it mandatory for accredited general practices to give their patients online access to their medical records

Getting more people back to work after they’ve been injured is at the heart of an ACC scheme launched this month 

A study of the reasons people seek non-urgent medical care at Middlemore Hospital’s emergency department has found many have already visited a doctor and have nowhere else to go.

Papakura GP Matire Harwood says the Government’s new Rheumatic Fever Roadmap is an important step to get on top of a condition that disproportionately affects Māori and Pasifika children 

Nearly one in eight young people between the age of 12 and 25 years of age has been dispensed a psychotropic drug in the last 12 months according to new data released by He Ako Hiringa

A programme designed to attract graduate GPs to work in rural and regional locations needs to be expanded to include existing experienced doctors

An increase in the trustee tax rate announced in Budget 2023 could hit some doctors in primary healthcare

The two GPs at the heart of the recent “vicarious liability” case believed they were operating separate practices and held no formal partnership agreement, says Medical Protection Society’s UK medical director Rob Hendry 

A new report on the future of healthcare has highlighted burnout as a major problem for New Zealand clinicians