Fiona Cassie

Rural practices are short by 130 GPs and nearly a quarter no longer provide hands-on out-of-hours services, the country’s second stocktake report on rural practices reveals

WellSouth has stepped in and bought a 50 per cent share in Dunedin’s financially stretched urgent-care service, which is owned and operated by the city’s GPs

A belated look at some of the news over the past weekend

A small marae-based GP clinic without a nurse for 12 weeks never gave up hope they would find someone.

Dougal Thorburn, a much-loved specialist GP and public health physician with a “huge heart” for health equity, the environment and his patients, died recently