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New Zealand Rural General Practice Network
Healthy Rural Communities
The New Zealand Rural General Practice Network is a membership and support organisation for rural health professionals. Based in Wellington, the Network's national membership and advocacy includes both rural practices and individual members covering more than 1800 doctors, nurses, practice managers and students. As part of our business operation we are contracted by the New Zealand government to provide a rural locum support and recruitment service which we do under the NZLocums brand, recruiting health professionals nationally and internationally.
New Zealand Rural General Practice Network - Latest News [Page 7]
Nurse Practitioners Want More Movement
Sunday, 14 March 2010, 10:19 am | NZ Rural General Practice Network
Rural Nurse Practitioners want urgent and immediate action to clear away legislation that often stops them from doing their job and treating patients effectively and efficiently. More >>
Joe Bennett takes the pain out of rural medicine
Monday, 8 March 2010, 4:36 pm | NZ Rural General Practice Network
Amongst the serious business on the agenda at this year’s New Zealand Rural General Practice conference, author, columnist, wit and raconteur Joe Bennett will be lurking ready to inject a healthy dose of humour into proceedings. He is not a doctor. He ... More >>
From politics to PRIME and honours to humour
Friday, 5 March 2010, 10:08 am | Rural General Practice Network
There’s a lot to get excited about at next month’s New Zealand Rural General Practice Network conference in Christchurch. More >>
Easing Of Moritorium Will Affect Medical Workforce
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 9:06 am | Rural General Practice Network
The easing of a 10-year moratorium limiting access to Australia by New Zealand doctors or medical graduates will have an impact on New Zealand’s medical workforce and could increase the exodus of professionals across the Tasman, the New Zealand Rural ... More >>
Easing Australia’s moratorium on overseas doctors
Monday, 14 December 2009, 10:26 am | Rural General Practice Network
The easing of a 10-year moratorium limiting access to Australia by New Zealand doctors or medical graduates will have an impact on New Zealand’s medical workforce and could increase the exodus of professionals across the Tasman, the New Zealand Rural ... More >>
Practitioners ask DHB to reconsider PHO decision
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 3:35 pm | NZ Rural General Practice Network
Southland general practitioners do not want a single provincial PHO. That was the clear message given to representatives from Southland DHB at a special meeting in Lumsden last night (October 20) facilitated by the New Zealand Rural General Practice ... More >>
Network Asks Boards to Discuss PHO Decision
Thursday, 15 October 2009, 3:49 pm | NZ Rural General Practice Network
Southland and Otago health board bosses have been asked to attend a meeting of concerned general practitioners to explain their recent decision to opt for single Southland and Otago PHOs. The call has been made by the New Zealand Rural General Practice ... More >>
Onus on DHBs to deliver better rural health
Friday, 29 May 2009, 3:59 pm | Rural General Practice Network
The New Zealand Rural General Practice Network has welcomed the Budget’s health funding boost but chairperson Kirsty Murrell-McMillan says the onus is now on DHBs to deliver services to rural communities. DHBs are to receive $2.1 billion from a ... More >>
Incentivise More Professionals Into Rural Practice
Friday, 30 May 2008, 3:38 pm | NZ Rural General Practice Network
The New Zealand Rural General Practice Network has welcomed the announcement by John Key that medical graduates could be incentivised to work in rural areas. Network chairperson, Kirsty Murrell-McMillan, said the focus on rural health issues was particularly ... More >>
Rural GP Network Supports Bonding Scheme
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 9:34 am | Rural General Practice Network
The New Zealand Rural General Practice Network has welcomed the announcement by John Key that medical graduates could be incentivised to work in rural areas. More >>
Dedication to rural health recognised
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 10:13 am | NZ Rural General Practice Network
Jean Ross of Otago Polytechnic and Dr Pat Farry of Otago University were recipients of the prestigious Peter Snow Memorial Award at the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network’s conference. More >>
Rural health professional shortage in spotlight
Friday, 28 March 2008, 12:09 am | Rural General Practice Network
The growing shortage of rural health professionals in New Zealand will be addressed at a conference held by the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network tomorrow. More >>
The reality of safe after-hours care
Tuesday, 31 July 2007, 3:59 pm | Rural General Practice Network
The New Zealand Rural General Practice Network (NZRGPN) was interested in TV3’s recent news story on a Dunedin pensioner who had to pay over $300 to get emergency medical help after hours in Wanaka. More >>
Good Start In Redressing GP Workforce Deficiencies
Saturday, 16 June 2007, 3:40 pm | NZ Rural General Practice Network
The NZ Rural GP Network welcomes the Health Minister's announcement today to increase the number of funded places in the GP Vocational Training Programme from 69 this year to 104 next year. More >>
Network conference hailed a success
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 10:07 am | Rural General Practice Network
The 2007 New Zealand Rural General Practice Network (NZRGPN) conference has been hailed a huge success by delegates. More >>
First ever rural medical immersion programme
Friday, 30 March 2007, 3:46 pm | Rural General Practice Network
The first ever rural medical immersion programme for New Zealand medical students kicks off next month at Otago University. More >>
Retention funding unaccounted for
Friday, 30 March 2007, 10:23 am | Rural General Practice Network
Recent research indicates approximately 28% of the rural premium and workforce retention funding, made available through the Ministry of Health, had not reached rural general practices. More >>
NZ can learn from Australia’s rural health service
Thursday, 29 March 2007, 4:36 pm | Rural General Practice Network
An overview on the development of support for rural general practice in Australia will be given tomorrow by Dr David Campbell, president of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), at the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network ... More >>
Need for greater collective focus on rural health
Monday, 19 June 2006, 10:53 am | Rural General Practice Network
New Zealand Rural General Practice Network Chair Tim Malloy says the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners report ‘General Practitioners in Urban and Rural New Zealand’, released today, highlights his organisation’s vital role in trying ... More >>
NZRGPN Chair questions government motives
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 10:24 am | Rural General Practice Network
New Zealand Rural General Practice Network Chair Dr Tim Malloy has questioned why the government would impose on the sector a condition it knows to be unacceptable to general practice at a critical point of the primary healthcare strategy. It has ... More >>
