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New rules for rural ambulance crews, meant to safeguard St John patients and staff leave other PRIME workers at risk, two South Island GPs say

Crown counsel has acknowledged claims of an alternative plan for Māori health to replace Te Aka Whai Ora were smoke and mirrors  

Only four per cent of recently trained doctors in New Zealand are working rurally, according to ground-breaking research by Queenstown specialist GP and PhD candidate Katelyn Costello

Government ministers have been accused by a wide range of healthcare and other organisations of “inappropriate political interference”, resulting in the withholding of updated clinical guidelines for gender-affirming care – apparently because of controversy surrounding puberty blocker drugs 

A group representing the country’s urgent care clinics has requested an emergency meeting with ACC minister Scott Simpson to discuss a recent pricing increase from the agency and the ongoing sustainability of a sector it says is teetering on the edge of collapse 

Reporter Alan Perrott talks to women’s health advocate and distinguished GP fellow Bev Lawton, a reluctant 2025 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year

Confirmation letters over the future of a key contract for supplying rural locums are in the mail – echoing a minister’s reassuring conference comments

Reflecting on the dismantling of Te Aka Whai Ora left public health physician Elana Curtis blinking away angry tears

Missed diagnoses and overloaded hospitals are the “true cost” to patients of the Budget’s new 12-month prescription policy, General Practitioners Aotearoa says in an open letter  

Social media is full of bizarre and questionable trends. The latest involves men trimming or shaving off their eyelashes in order to appear more “masculine”