Fiona Cassie

Hanmer Springs Health Centre is celebrating having an extended care paramedic who can now share the workload of emergency PRIME callouts with GPs and nurses over the holiday season.

Sixty-five years of patient services at Christchurch’s The Princess Margaret Hospital ends today, with the last patient-facing service moving into a new mental health outpatient facility at Hillmorton Hospital

A programme encouraging highschool-aged students to pursue careers in rural health, co-run by Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network, will have its contract with Te Whatu Ora cut at the end of 2024

Another year, another annual increase offer rejected for failing to recognise the ever-growing crisis in general practice. How did we get to this “boiling frog” moment? Fiona Cassie looks at the past and future of general practice contract negotiations

Prioritising budgets over real community needs is causing “moral injury” to many healthcare workers, says Christchurch PHO chair and specialist GP Jason Pryke

In 2014, our first ownership map was published, dotting across the country the 108 medical centres then fully or partially sold to corporate and PHO networks.