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Dr Bryan Betty Awarded Top Honour For Contribution To General Practice
Monday, 9 August 2021, 6:20 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
Dr Bryan Betty, a Wellington GP and Medical Director of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has been awarded the College’s top honour of Distinguished Fellowship. This honour is awarded to GPs who have demonstrated sustained contributions ... More >>
GP Awarded Top Honour For Enduring Service To Balclutha Community, And To Rural Health
Monday, 9 August 2021, 6:18 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
Dr Branko Sijnja, a Balclutha based GP, has been awarded Distinguished Fellowship of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. Distinguished Fellowship is awarded to Fellows of the College who have made sustained contributions to general ... More >>
Health Minister Announces Practical Framework At GP’s Annual Conference
Friday, 6 August 2021, 11:32 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
Today at GP21: the conference for general practice, Minister for Health Andrew Little announced a new Health System Indicators framework to measure how well the health and disability system serves New Zealanders. The indicators will replace the previous ... More >>
Is There A Doctor In The House? There’s More Than 700 This Weekend In Wellington
Thursday, 5 August 2021, 1:23 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
On Friday more than 700 GPs and other health professionals will put down their stethoscopes and descend on Wellington for The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners annual conference. The conference programme has been created with GPs’ and rural ... More >>
New Zealand Needs To Start Manufacturing COVID-19 Vaccine
Wednesday, 21 July 2021, 11:24 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is calling on the Government to ensure New Zealand can produce and develop COVID-19 vaccines independently. "While New Zealand has secured access to the current COVID-19 vaccine, evidence shows that ... More >>
New Research Shows How Remote GP Consults Are Addressing Worldwide Health Inequities
Monday, 5 July 2021, 9:19 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
A new study published in the Journal of Primary Health Care shows how during the COVID-19 outbreak, GPs in Italy successfully moved to a virtual medicine model in order to reduce the spread of the virus, and keep patients, and themselves, safe. ... More >>
GPs Still Open For Business Despite Alert Level Change In Wellington
Wednesday, 23 June 2021, 4:11 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
Following the announcement to move the Wellington region into Alert Level 2, The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is encouraging Wellingtonians to be vigilant and follow the well-tested guidelines that are already in place. Dr ... More >>
Our COVID-free Status Relies On Trust In Vaccine
Thursday, 10 June 2021, 8:58 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The increase of vaccine hesitancy caused by misinformation about the safety of the COVID vaccine is frustrating, and needs to stop, says Dr Bryan Betty, medical director at The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. General practitioners ... More >>
GP, Teacher, Artist, Mentor, Leader - College President Deserving Recipient Of Queen’s Birthday Honour
Monday, 7 June 2021, 5:49 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is delighted to congratulate their President, Dr Samantha Murton, on being appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) in the 2021 Queens Birthday honours. Dr Samantha Murton Dr ... More >>
GPs Find Themselves ‘health Adjacent’ In Today’s Budget Announcements
Thursday, 20 May 2021, 3:15 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
"Not surprised" but with "glimmers of hope" is how the President of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has described her reaction to today’s Budget 2021. There is no direct funding for general practice and primary ... More >>
College Of GPs Applauds Announcement Of Lifesaving Self-test For Cervical Cancer
Monday, 10 May 2021, 12:02 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has applauded the Government’s announcement yesterday that a self-test for cervical cancer will be available from 2023. President Dr Samantha Murton says, "Patients dying from a preventable ... More >>
GPs Optimistic About Realistic Plan For New Zealand’s Health Future
Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 9:53 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners today commended the efficiencies, access to healthcare for all, and prominence and importance of equity that was outlined in today’s Health and Disability System Review announcement. Dr Samantha Murton, ... More >>
HPV Screening Delays Mean Māori And Pacific Women Are Dying
Thursday, 15 April 2021, 9:27 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
New Zealand’s Māori and Pacific women are dying at two-three times the rate of other women because the way we screen for cervical cancer isn’t as good as it could be. Dr Samantha Murton is the President of The Royal New Zealand College of General ... More >>
College Of General Practitioners Marks Death Of Patron
Saturday, 10 April 2021, 6:09 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is today marking the death of their patron, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Phillip had been patron of the College for 47 years, since he formally handed over ... More >>
College Of GPs Releases Latest Workforce Survey Data
Friday, 2 April 2021, 2:39 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has today released the results of its biennial Workforce Survey showing that changes need to be made at a Government level to ensure the sustainability of community medicine in New Zealand. See the ... More >>
GPs Keen To Hear More About Prime Minister’s Focus On Primary Health Care
Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 11:44 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners are keen to hear more about the Prime Minister’s focus on primary health care the comments she made to media yesterday. Appearing on The AM Show, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, in response ... More >>
Moving Responsibility For Fluoride In Water To Health A ‘victory For Science’ Says GPs
Friday, 19 March 2021, 10:09 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is praising the Government’s law change proposal to give the Director-General of Health control over water fluoridation. President, Dr Samantha Murton says, "the College supports evidence-based medicine, ... More >>
Immigration Changes Just What The Doctor Ordered
Monday, 15 March 2021, 11:27 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is today praising a change by the Government that will allow overseas-trained doctors to work in New Zealand more easily. On Saturday, Immigration New Zealand removed the visa exemption expiry ... More >>
New Zealand’s GPs Happy With Rollout Sequencing, Keen To See The Detail Of ‘how’
Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 3:16 pm | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is pleased to hear that today’s vaccine rollout plan will get the country’s GPs and general practice staff vaccinated soon. President Dr Samantha Murton says, "For over a year our GP members have ... More >>
Survey Results Raise Concern For The Health And Sustainability Of General Practice
Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 10:03 am | Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
Two recent surveys from The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners have signalled real concern about an increase in GP burnout, the number of GPs intending to retire, and the sustainability of the sector. The College runs its Workforce Survey ... More >>
