General Practice

The West Coast comes with its own set of challenges: low employment and high needs, boom and bust mining cycles, rural isolation and inclement weather - all these can make it hard to lure GPs to the region

Frustration for health professionals who regularly treat young people, as another shortage hits a popular oral contraceptive 

A national circulation to GPs on Tuesday noted there has been an increase in meningococcal W disease, asking us to be aware of this and noting it can present in a more atypical way

Erectile dysfunction meds are the most common illicit medicines seized at New Zealand’s border followed by antibiotics and insomnia medicines

An Auckland GP appeared before a Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal to admit charges of professional misconduct for self-treating and self-prescribing potentially addictive and/or psychotropic drugs

A cross-sectional survey of adults with multimorbidity revealed 20 per cent of the 234 participants had trouble covering the cost of picking up prescriptions and GP fees

Auckland patients with cellulitis are spending much less time in hospital, thanks to a revised treatment pathway

GPs are being warned to be vig­ilant for a virulent strain of meningococcal infection, after a big rise in the number of cases in the past few months

An expected Government review of primary care funding appears to have been superseded by a much wider-ranging review of the health system announced by health minister David Clark yesterday afternoon

The makers of a new prescrip­tion delivery service app are heralding a boon for patient medication adherence but gen­eral practice commentators are warning of an already crowded app market