Media Releases

2008

New Zealand Rural General Practice Network welcomes support for rural areas [28 May 2008]

Dedication to rural health recognised [15 April 2008]

New Chair for Rural General Practice Network [1 April 2008]

NZ Rural General Practice Network Annual Conference [28 March 2008]

2007

NZLocums Permanent Placements

• Permanent GP Placement at WAIHI  [26 September 2007]
• Permanent GP Placement at TURANGI  [11 September 2007]
• Permanent GP Placement at RAWENE  [30 August 2007]

The reality of safe after-hours care [31 July 2007]

Overseas trained doctors keep our health services afloat - Levin [24 July 2007]

A promising start to redressing GP workforce deficiencies [15 June 2007]

NZ Rural General Practice Network Annual Conference 2007

• General media release and media advisory [29 March 2007]
• New Zealand can learn from Australia's rural health service [30 March 2007]
• Research indicates 28% of rural premium and workforce retention funding unaccounted for [30March 2007]
• First ever rural medical immersion programme for New Zealand med students[ 31 March 2007]
• Rural General Practice Network conference hailed a success [4 April 2007]

2006

After-Hours Oncall Survey: papers #2 and #3 [24 September 2006]

• Backgrounder: Rural general practitioners' and nurses' views on PRIME
• Backgrounder: Finding workable solutions to providing rural after-hours care

After-Hours Oncall Survey:paper #1 [11 September 2006]

Nursing Post-Graduate Scholarships [9 June 2006]

2005

Rural GP recruitment working for New Zealand [30 August 2005]
Statement highlights concerns facing rural GPs [29 May 2005]
Rural students announce new National Body: ARHA [20 May 2005]
Young doctors told to consider rural general practice [16 Feb 2005]

2004

$10.9m funding boost for rural health [14 Oct 2004]