General Practice

Fiona Cassie wanted to know what happens to the thousands of nasal swabs that are sent away for analysis each day. The Southern Community Laboratories experts who answered her questions are clinical microbiologist Arlo Upton, molecular pathology department head Jenny Grant and clinical microbiologist James Ussher 

Following the influenza vaccine “debacle”, GP leaders are calling for exclusive early-season general practice access to the vaccine for at-risk patients 

Pharmacist and PhD candidate Robert Haua (Ngāi Te Rangi) has won the first School of Pharmacy Doctoral Publication Excellence award

General practices on the front line in the COVID-19 crisis are feeling let down, angry and taken for granted after Cabinet pulled the plug on the second $22 million instalment of lockdown relief funding 

Prescription filling and delivery services are further ramping up as COVID-19 demand hits. Auckland-based companies Zoom Health and prescription delivery newcomer DrInfo have noticed a spike in demand.  

GP concerns grow over potential effects of a COVID-19 epidemic on them and their patients while they await ministry plans 

The owner of the only pharmacy in the far north community of Kaeo hopes a new primary care provider taking over her area’s troubled GP clinic will improve her business fortunes

The owner of the only pharmacy in the far north community of Kaeo hopes a new primary care provider taking over her area’s troubled GP clinic will improve her business fortunes

Pharmacy trailblazer John Dunlop has retired, having finished his term on the Pharmaceutical Society board and written his last column for Pharmacy Today. 

The New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora is an opportunity not only to celebrate the successes of health professionals but to also learn from them, says Andrew Gaudin, chief executive of the Pharmacy Guild, which is co-hosting the event