Health experts are calling for urgent widespread vaccination to protect our most vulnerable as whooping cough cases in Aotearoa hit their highest levels in five years.
Strengthening Disaster Resilience and Emergency Management sets out the Government’s overarching vision to strengthen New Zealand’s emergency management system over the next five years. “To get there ...
The Government has broadly accepted the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care whilst continuing to consider and respond to its recommendations.
The curved geometry of slickenlines from the Alpine Fault’s most recent earthquake indicated it had travelled from the south towards the north. We also found evidence for rupturing in the opposite ...
‘Poster child’ practice Waikanae Health has gone from thriving to surviving as GP shortages and patient demands take their ...
GP registrars are the future of general practice, and New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa wants to hear from them. We asked Kirsty Thwaites 11 questions about general practice, medical school and what ...
‘Poster child’ practice Waikanae Health has gone from thriving to surviving as GP shortages and patient demands take their ...
The existing Plunket service model ensures wraparound support, ensuring all health needs of pepi, māmā and the wider whānau are being considered, alongside immunisation needs. Extending that role to ...
Pharmac will improve access to three cancer medicines from 1 November. The three medicines are cetuximab (branded as Erbitux) for bowel cancer, bendamustine for relapsed or refractory chronic ...
When prime minister Christopher Luxon criticised doctors for prioritising young Māori and Pasifika patients, he called it a ...
The review of the first weekend’s operations identified some opportunities for improvement such as ensuring a consistent approach on the writing and accessibility of care plans across health providers ...
In this article, specialist GP Sophie Jadwiga Ball describes two tools that can be employed within a GP cons ...