General Practice

The Board of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has announced that the College will not proceed with its registrars’ first year clinical exams that were planned to commence at the end of February 2022

Despite having a prestigious career spanning more than 40 years at the forefront of developments in New Zealand pharmacy, Linda Bryant was still surprised when she received a New Year Honour this year.

Sydney GPs have been flying blind with Omicron, only learning of their patients’ diagnosis if the person phones up for help

Pharmacists are fuming they cannot order N95 masks from the Ministry of Health’s central supply of personal protective equipment, when GPs can

The findings of a damning report by Pharmac are “concerning but not surprising”, says the organisation’s chief medical officer David Hughes

The Grey Lynn GP whose home care plan for COVID-19 went global last year is describing the current COVID response in New Zealand as a “schemozzle”

Many health workers may be asked to forgo holidays over Christmas–New Year if Waikato’s COVID-19 outbreak tracks according to a model presented by Midland region DHBs 

A simple ‘nudge’ letter to GPs pointing out their antibiotic prescribing was “out of whack” with their local peers led to a sizable drop in overprescribing, a study published today finds 

A family doctor who launched a campaign to get Kiwis to wear masks is quitting her job after the Government made the Covid-19 vaccine compulsory for most health workers

The COVID-19 pandemic provides the perfect opportunity to highlight the high number of incorrect prescriptions being sent through the New Zealand Electronic Prescription Service (NZePS), and to finally get something done about the problem