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Whitireia, in collaboration with Kites Trust, will offer the first national qualification in New Zealand for Peer Support

The Medical Council took the allegations very seriously and stopped Dr Skantha from practising as soon as possible

The University of Otago has now granted terms under special conditions to fifty medical students who failed to meet elective attendance requirements

The Government has made good progress towards eliminating the gender pay gap in the Public Service, Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter announced today

A Medical Council committee considered the applications for registration of a number of medical students after questions of conduct were raised in relation to the completion of their elective placements

New Zealand Medical Journal vol 132 No. 1506: 29 November 2019

Introducing flexible sigmoidoscopy screening into the national bowel screening programme would significantly reduce both the incidence and mortality of bowel cancer in New Zealand, new University of Otago research reveals

New Zealand's first ever Suicide Prevention Office has officially opened today and is already working to tackle our persistently high rate of suicide

The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (the College) is pleased to announce that yesterday [25 November 2019], College President Dr Samantha Murton signed OraTaiao’s Health Professionals Joint Call for Action on Climate Change and Health, marking a formal commitment to confronting the health effects of climate change
 

The convenor of refreshed postgraduate qualifications in primary health care at the University of Otago, Wellington, has brought years of experience working as a field medic for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in such global hotspots as Afghanistan and Sierra Leone – as well as on-the-ground work in rural and urban New Zealand - to the task