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Full-time specialists in the Wairarapa have the country's hightest average base pay, according to new figures which show city doctors are paid less than their rural counterparts. (Dominion Post)
Ashburton Hospital's operating theatre block, closed this morning because of high seismic risk, is the latest casualty in Canterbury DHB's structural engineers review. (NZ Doctor)
It's grim news for young rural men with high testosterone levels. (Dominion Post)
American Becky Olson took over the post of service manager at Wairau Hospital five months ago. (Marlborough Express)
The increasingly elderly population creates challenges that must be high on the health agenda, said experts at the New Zealand Bioethics Conference. (NZ Doctor)
Heather Roy is to Chair Medicines New Zealand, the industry association for innovative pharmaceutical companies in New Zealand. (Scoop)
New GPs arriving in Marlborough are unlikely to ease patient waiting lists, but the region's PHO is confident it has found a solution. (NZ Doctor)
Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) is developing a workforce strategy for the health and disability support sector.
As part of its Innovation Programmes, Health Workforce NZ is supporting demonstration sites to test Physician Assistants across a range of settings in the New Zealand environment. A Physician Assistant is a new role in New Zealand’s medical workforce.
The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand Inc has welcomed a court decision in the case between GlaxoSmithKline NZ Ltd (GSK) and Ian Johnson Pharmacy Ltd (IJPL) over the recall of suspected faulty medication.