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Negotiators involved in yesterday’s first PSAAP meeting are staying tight-lipped but say time pressures mean covering off significant issues before the end of the month

A draft service agreement for a new digital health service suggests Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora values telehealth providers more than GPs, says GenPro chair Angus Chambers

A new weekend and public holiday after-hours primary healthcare service will be launched in Tairāwhiti this weekend

The Ministry of Health’s consultation on health workforce regulation is under fire from senior academic Ben Gray, who says his submission was excluded from analysis because it wasn’t filed via the official online portal

The Medical Council will launch a consultation process with the health sector and other stakeholders on a new regulatory framework for physician associates

IT provider Middleware New Zealand has been selected to deliver the shared digital health record data service necessary to the success of a new 24/7 online medical service due to start operating in July

The departure of 60 per cent of overseas-trained doctors within two years of New Zealand registration is a retention issue, not a registration one, says Medical Council chair Rachelle Love

The health portfolio is often characterised as a poison chalice, not the least because health ministers face the wrath of Cabinet colleagues as, alongside social development, Vote Health takes the lion’s share of the annual Budget. Ahead of Budget 2025 this month Stephen Forbes tracked down two former health ministers – Wyatt Creech and Pete Hodgson – for a chat about the challenge that is Vote Health

Medical professionals shouldn’t worry about being replaced by artificial intelligence but by being superseded by those who can use the technology better than they can, according to Karl Cole

The Medical Council is expected to release new guidelines for using artificial intelligence before the end of the year, according to board member Stephen Child