Practices may rethink whether they can afford to carry on with immunisation monitoring and recalls if parents opt to go to community pharmacies for infant vaccinations, says an RNZCGP submission

A long-mooted third medical school is a step forward with the Ministry of Health and the University of Waikato signing a memorandum that kickstarts the business case required by the Coalition Government agreements

The Government should invest in stretched general practices to boost childhood immunisation rates before funding pharmacies to immunise infants, argues General Practice Owners Association chair Angus Chambers

About one in five people report that having to wait too long for an appointment has put them off visiting a GP – nearly twice as many as the previous year, finds the latest annual New Zealand Health Survey

A firewall glitch saw the New Zealand ePrescription Service grind to a halt last Friday morning, leaving many e-prescriptions stuck in limbo between general practices and pharmacies

A “bug” has prompted Te Whatu Ora to delay this weekend’s planned switchover to the new $38 million Aotearoa Immunisation Register for another week

All child and adult immunisation data is to be shifted to the new $38 million Aotearoa Immunisation Register this month as the gremlin-beset National Immunisation Register is put out to pasture