3 July 2019

It was a quiet affair, this year’s medico-political session at Rotorua GP CME

Three people at the two now-defunct Northland PHOs have lost their jobs, and bargaining is under way on a collective employment agreement, says a unionist involved

The boss of a PHO in eastern Bay of Plenty strongly rejects any merger which would remove local decision-making from Whakatāne

Ian Town has been appointed to the role of Ministry of Health chief science advisor; he started on 1 July

The controversial End of Life Choice Bill will go to a third reading after MPs voted it through 70 to 50 in a parliamentary debate last week featuring emotional personal reflections by MPs

Wellington GPs have raised fears over the sustainability of their practices as the Government increasingly sets and caps the fee they can charge patients.

Wellington GP Deane Diesel Drew stood unaccompanied in a hotel meeting room on 25 June to be told that, as he had expected, his medical registration would be cancelled.

Mental health advocate Barbara Disley says “great things are happening” in mental healthcare in the community, but she admits she became distressed by people’s stories of a broken system

Fifty per cent of medical school graduates need to specialise in general practice every year if New Zealand is to receive the level of healthcare required, says Auckland medical professor Phillippa Poole.