General Practice

New research has highlighted clinical pharmacist facilitators, as an integral part of general practice, enhance the level of care received by patients in New Zealand and identify thousands of medicine-related problems. Anna Lee reports

GP researches his patients’ experiences switching from branded to generic antidepressant 

Tongan Health Society is looking to go international only months after claiming the Total Healthcare General Practice of the Year title at the inaugural
New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora

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