Counties Manukau

Intense early winter pressure on primary care and hospitals has shone a spotlight back on the closure of a popular overnight service  

More general practices are expected to open this weekend to take some of Middlemore Hospital’s workload, but a longer-term response is unlikely 

Targeted funding for pharmacists and GPs as Middlemore ED struggles  to cope with demand and turns to primary care for help

Asking worn-out GPs and nurses to prop up struggling emergency departments at weekends is “ambulance at the bottom of the cliff stuff” 

Middlemore's DHB funded local GPs up to $1400 an hour over the weekend to help take the pressure off its emergency department

It's a brave PHO that releases a strategic plan in the middle of a reform process that threatens its future

It's a brave PHO that releases a strategic plan in the middle of a reform process that threatens its future

The body that oversees Auckland’s integrated primary mental health and addiction service is pushing for registered counsellors to be allowed to work as health improvement practitioners 

The health sector’s institutional memory holds very little of the work done on localities years ago in New Zealand so, as localities will be central in the reformed system, it’s time to honour those who forged the path

The health sector’s institutional memory holds very little of the work done on localities years ago in New Zealand so, as localities will be central in the reformed system, it’s time to honour those who forged the path