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  • City doctors earn less than country cousins

    Date published
    5 Feb 2012

    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)

  • Earthquake-prone hospital theatre closes

    Date published
    2 Feb 2012

    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)

  • 'Fertile' women fleeing rural areas

    Date published
    1 Feb 2012

    It's grim news for young rural men with high testosterone levels. (Dominion Post)

  • Patient care manager enjoys busy pace

    Date published
    31 Jan 2012

    American Becky Olson took over the post of service manager at Wairau Hospital five months ago. (Marlborough Express)

  • No country for old men (or women)

    Date published
    31 Jan 2012

    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 to chair Medicines New Zealand

    Date published
    30 Jan 2012

    Heather Roy is to Chair Medicines New Zealand, the industry association for innovative pharmaceutical companies in New Zealand. (Scoop)

  • New GPs unlikely to help Marlborough waiting lists

    Date published
    30 Jan 2012

    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)

  • Workforce strategy for the health and disability

    Date published
    22 Jan 2012

    Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) is developing a workforce strategy for the health and disability support sector.

  • Physician Assistants in rural primary care

    Date published
    19 Dec 2011

    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.

  • Judgement favours pharmacist

    Date published
    5 Oct 2011

    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.