Health reforms

Te Whatu Ora has selected the frontline health workers to lead its first four national clinical networks.

Boundaries for a further 22 of the 60 or so localities planned to cover the country are set to be signed off, says Te Whatu Ora national director commissioning Abbe Anderson

An independent review of the health reforms’ progress is to start shortly but will not be completed until after the election

The English pharmacy sector is begging the NHS to stop stealing community pharmacists to work in general practice after three years of a programme similar to one being proposed here.

The English pharmacy sector is begging the NHS to stop stealing community pharmacists to work in general practice after three years of a programme similar to one being proposed here.

A long-awaited plan for transforming New Zealand’s health system promises to lay foundations for improving health outcomes and stamping out inequities will do so with no new money for the first two years

Four key challenges to implementing localities, including general practice willingness, are outlined by health systems researcher Tim Tenbensel in a guest editorial in the latest Journal of Primary Health Care 

The money tap is about to be turned on for pharmacists to work in general practice settings, writes Amanda Cameron

The money tap is about to be turned on for pharmacists to work in general practice settings, writes Amanda Cameron

“It was the dirty end of winter” (thanks Nick Cave), as I began writing this last month. A time when COVID-19 was once again on the rise, everyone seemed to be sick with a range of ills – the quieter roads were a good indication – but over-riding everything was the ongoing exhaustion, despondency and low morale. And not just in healthcare!