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Primary Care in NZ – Viable but Vulnerable?
Thursday, 8 May 2003, 6:05 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners' mission statement is "To improve the health of all New Zealanders through high quality general practice care." More >>
Importance of GP continuity of care
Friday, 4 April 2003, 10:17 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The significant finding of the MaGPie Study into Mental Health supported GP continuity of care with patients, with GPs even more likely to identify mental health problems in patients they see more often. More >>
Overseas doctors outnumber Kiwis
Thursday, 13 March 2003, 6:12 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
Overseas-trained doctors were 62 percent of those who sat the Primex for general practice in 2002, slightly up on the previous year. More >>
College backs professorial call for ad ban
Monday, 17 February 2003, 9:18 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is backing the call for a ban on direct to consumer advertising of prescription medicines – and supports the call for an independent health information service. More >>
College sets up Maori faculty
Monday, 30 September 2002, 8:01 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is the first medical professional body in the country to formally incorporate a Maori voice. More >>
Pollock Scheme Reflects Huge Stresses Facing GPs
Tuesday, 20 August 2002, 4:29 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The innovative initiative of North Shore GP John Pollock in setting up a virtual private health insurance scheme for his patients highlights the problems facing GPs across the whole sector. More >>
GPs Continue To Walk Away From Childbirth Care
Friday, 21 June 2002, 3:48 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
New Zealand general practitioners with specialised training in obstetrics are continuing to walk away from childbirth care as midwives dominate as lead maternity carers. More >>
Action needed now to halt rural health decline
Thursday, 16 May 2002, 8:25 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
New Zealand must act fast to prevent the rural health workforce from being decimated by aggressive overseas recruitment drives, the NZ Rural General Practice Network says. More >>
A Step In The Right Direction – GPs
Thursday, 14 March 2002, 10:07 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal NZ College of General Practitioners welcomed the Government’s announcement of increased funding for primary health care today. “It’s a step in the right direction” said the College President Dr Helen Rodenburg. More >>
Less Time On Paperwork Means Healthier Patients
Friday, 15 February 2002, 3:14 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
Spending less time meeting the demands of bureaucrats and more time seeing patients would result not only in increased health but happier doctors, says the Royal NZ College of General Practitioners. More >>
Study Shows GPs Give Exceptional Value
Friday, 15 February 2002, 3:12 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Deloittes study into the economics of running a general practice show that the majority of people are getting exceptional value from their doctor, according to the Royal NZ College of General Practitioners. More >>
GPs propose "HPI" to index health funding
Tuesday, 11 December 2001, 1:01 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
Funding of health services - and particularly primary care - ought to be indexed to a new “Health Price Index” similar to the CPI (Consumer Price Index), the organisation representing 95 percent of the country's GPs said today. More >>
Funding package - no certainty for primary care
Tuesday, 11 December 2001, 12:59 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
While welcoming news of increased funding for health, announced today by Health Minister Annette King, the Royal NZ College of General Practitioners is concerned that primary care is “still in the dark” about the level of support it can expect from government. More >>
New Plan For PHOs Gives Clear Direction
Thursday, 15 November 2001, 9:20 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal NZ College of General Practitioners has welcomed the new “Minimum Requirements for Primary Health Organisations” document released by the Minister of Health today. More >>
GPs reaffirm commitment to maternity provision
Monday, 12 November 2001, 4:22 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
While obstetrics in general practice is one of the areas hardest-hit by changes to health funding models, with many GPs choosing not to continue doing maternity work, those that remain are determined to preserve the specialised skills involved, and ... More >>
Increase in complaints shows failure of system
Thursday, 8 November 2001, 5:35 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The “record high” in complaints against doctors noted by Health and Disability Commissioner Ron Paterson in his Annual Report to Parliament is due more to systems failure than a lack of competence in the medical profession. More >>
New 'quality seal' for general practice
Tuesday, 25 September 2001, 1:21 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
General practices around New Zealand enter a new era today - for the first time, they have a set of Practice Standards against which they can assess the performance of their practice. More >>
Primary Care Providers Aim To Give Leadership
Monday, 6 August 2001, 3:52 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
A diverse range of primary health care providers opposed to one another on certain issues the first of series of meetings aimed “devising proactive solutions that are primary healthcare-led”. Representatives from the various organisations (a list of ... More >>
Cautious Welcome To New Maternity Plan
Tuesday, 31 July 2001, 12:30 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
GPs are pleased with the Ministry of Health’s new maternity plan, and are optimistic that it forms “the foundations of a constructive approach”, says Royal NZ College of General Practitioners President Dr Helen Rodenburg. More >>
GPs offer answer to breast screening problem
Wednesday, 18 July 2001, 3:21 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
General Practice has the potential to dramatically increase the percentage of women opting to be screened for breast cancer if it were properly funded to target the problem, says the Royal NZ College of General Practitioners. More >>
