General Practice

Transforming the communication platform across its national network has changed the way Tāmaki Health communicates with its patient population

The latest full-year results are in from Green Cross Health and its medical and community health divisions have done better than last year, while its pharmacy division has not

Whether the Government should introduce a universal free health system and scrap copayments is an option being included in the Government's health reform Transition Unit’s next advice, according to deputy head Martin Hefford

In Christchurch, a pharmacy and a medical centre have collaborated to turn a former shoe store into possibly the first primary care-run COVID vaccination site in New Zealand

New figures show the rate of antidepressants being prescribed over the past four years is at an all-time high and there's a huge disparity between ethnic groups

Health minister Andrew Little explains details of his reforms in an interview with New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa

GPs should especially be on the lookout for medication-related harm in elderly patients, according to the lead author of a new study that crunched general practice data

A medical centre’s poor systems resulted in repeated over-prescribing and a patient developing drug-induced Cushing’s syndrome 

A survey of primary care doctors, nurses and managers found special vaccination centres would be the most popular of suggested venues for giving COVID-19 vaccines

Testimony on day two of the chief coroner’s inquest into what role a Pharmac epilepsy drug brand switch played in the deaths of six people has revealed more confusion