South Canterbury

Robyn Carey has started a secondment as acting chief medical officer at the Ministry of Health until the end of June; Auckland surgeon Andrew Connolly held the role last year

Ensuring GPs can book virtual consultations with hospital spe­cialists is one of 18 successful bids made by DHBs to receive Ministry of Health funding for primary care im­provement projects

Ensuring GPs can book virtual consultations with hospital spe­cialists is one of 18 successful bids made by DHBs to receive Ministry of Health funding for primary care im­provement projects

A collaborative health IT approach across the South Island has been seven years in the making, and long may it last beyond the health reforms, says Mike Collins, a man soon to leave the health sector

The Government has adopted the Health and Disability System Re­view’s concept of locality networks

The Government has adopted the Health and Disability System Re­view’s concept of locality networks

The “underwhelming” health reforms will take the sector back tothe 1990s and are unlikely to benefit general practice, says Temuka GP Bryan Moore 
 

Waimate GP Sarah Creegan is proud to be a doctor in New Zealand, where she says medical leadership has been exceptional in the way it has calmly, rationally and sensibly dealt with COVID-19

South Canterbury DHB is exploring how it will lead a pilot of monitoring patients’ health remotely

South Canterbury District Health Board (SCDHB) chief executive Nigel Trainor has resigned to take up a position at the Southern District Health Board