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Media releases
Top GPs confirm New Zealanders’ healthcare needs will always be paramount
Māori and Pasifika hardest hit by Delta; what will we do differently with Omicron?
Vaccination targets important to increase equitable outcomes
Lack of primary care representation on Health NZ Board not acceptable, says GP College
College calls for priority vaccines for Māori and Pasifika to prevent health system overwhelm
GPs serving their communities and supporting Pasifika families affected by Delta
New research shows how remote GP consults are addressing worldwide health inequities
GPs find themselves ‘health adjacent’ in today’s Budget announcements
GPs optimistic about realistic plan for New Zealand’s health future
Immigration changes just what the doctor ordered
College of GPs calls PHARMAC’s diabetes decision today a ‘win for equity’
New research shows GPs continued to deliver high level of care during lockdown
College of GPs welcomes commitment to tackle rheumatic fever
Extra funding a huge win for stretched GP workforce
Māori tamariki continue to suffer most from health inequities, new research shows
Funding available for research that benefits general practice
Immunising children against measles is an urgent priority say GPs
Applications opening soon for 2024 general practice and rural hospital medicine training
New Medical Director appointed
Specialist GPs are worth the investment
Funding available for research that benefits general practice
College welcomes ACT's call for more GP investment
Budget 2023: More specific support needed for GPs
Enter the Greg Judkins Poetry Competition
Joint media release: General practice organisations reject Government funding increase
More med students a small but important step in addressing workforce shortages
Dr Jeff Lowe awarded Distinguished Fellowship at GP23
Ōpōtiki GP awarded top College honour at GP23
Dr Justine Lancaster awarded Distinguished Fellowship
Dr Lily Fraser recognised with top College honour at GP23
GP and IMAC founder awarded Distinguished Fellowship at GP23
Teacher and mentor to Māori and Pasifika GPs recognised with College award
Community Service Medal recipients showcase why GPs are the heart of healthcare
Waikato GPs mahi to improve health inequity recognised with College award
Wellington GPs contribution to sustainable workforce recognised at GP23
Promoting general practice and rural health to next generation recognised with College award
Funding available for research that benefits general practice
It’s Cervical Screening Awareness Month. Are you up to date?
College of GPs welcome commitment to grow Aotearoa’s health workforce
Pay gap crippling essential community healthcare
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Record numbers to start specialist GP training in 2024
Tobacco and vaping law changes show shocking lack of commitment to health of New Zealanders
General practice investment is critical when one million Kiwis can’t access our services
Funding round opens for research benefitting general practice
Applications open for 2025 general practice and rural hospital medicine training
GPs working for free to complete crucial patient follow-up – study shows
College of GPs Division of Rural Hospital Medicine celebrates 10 new Fellows
Recognition of general practice’s crucial role in childhood immunisations welcomed
Second funding round opens for research benefitting general practice
College Chief Executive appointed
Sunday 19 May is World Family Doctor Day
Budget 2024: Boost for primary care welcomed, but more details needed on how funding will be allocated
General Practice Leaders’ Forum disappointed that small capitation offer will increase patient costs
Honorary Fellowship awarded for commitment to GP workforce through education and research
College of GPs award showcases the value of our workforce in every NZ community
President’s Service Medal awarded for dedication to general practice and rural health workforce
College’s top honour awarded to seven dedicated and inspiring members
Funding round opens for research benefitting general practice
Closing GP after hours clinics only widen health inequities faced by rural New Zealanders
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
College of GPs joins calls for Government to drop the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill and focus on addressing systemic health inequities
College of GPs says investment in primary care must be a top priority for new Health Minister
Funding round opens for research benefitting general practice
College of GPs welcomes newest GP and rural hospital medicine trainees
New Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) reaccreditation module launched
General Practice Leaders’ Forum announces new Chair
Primary care funding a positive step in the right direction, says College of GPs

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Steering the waka towards more equitable outcomes
Faculty Focus – Nelson/Marlborough
Faculty Focus – Northland
Faculty Focus — Wellington
GP21 a vibrant, thoughtful, successful conference
Waikato Faculty focus
Three College Fellows receive 2021 New Year Honours
Dr Jason Tuhoe: advocate for te reo revitalisation
Dr Nina Bevin is the College’s new Board Apprentice
Equity and positive change priority for new Censor-in-Chief
Faculty Focus – Hawkes Bay
Dr Rachel Mackie is our new Board Apprentice
Board Apprentice role gives governance insight
A baby, a medical degree, and now a seat on the Board
Dr Stephan Lombard appointed as National Advisory Council Chair
Dr Geraldine Wilson; the College’s new Board Apprentice
GP Future Workforce Requirements Report highlights
Member benefits for your learning
New JPHC co-editors announced
New Board member: Dr Karl Cole
Showcasing member highlights through the Annual Report
What’s stopping you from applying for research funding through the College?
Eruera Medical Centre the first practice to achieve new Foundation programme
Coming up for air in a "new normal"
Dr Chris Boberg talks about melanoma care
Leadership in the field - meet Dr Emily Cavana
Leadership in the field - meet Dr Meg Wilson
Support and understanding, for all colours of the rainbow
‘Everyone has a role in ensuring equitable health outcomes for Māori’
New direction for Northland GP Dr Aniva Lawrence
Professor Sue Crengle - GP and a public health physician
Rural hospital doctor's ‘’Behind the Mask” documentary affirms value of national COVID-19 response
The GP who epitomised community care Dr Neil Algar QSO (1927 – 2021)
General practice training the icing on the cake
College members receive Queen's Birthday Honours
Dr Bev Lawton – a driving force for women’s health
Expat GP says Northland offers amazing opportunities for junior doctors
Fighting COVID-19 with a vaccination plan for an entire country
Lifelong commitment to teaching leads to Queen’s Birthday Honour for College President
Small, but mighty!
The doctor who led the development of general practice as a specialty
The unexpected patient: Dr Himali McInnes writes a book
TikTok GP star inspires a new generation
Two College Fellows receive 2022 New Year Honours
Two deserving GPs awarded WONCA Fellowship
What he learnt at home; he took to the Olympics
Winning hearts and minds key to climate change response
A legacy forged by the gift of a piglet
Dr Suhasini Pothina: Spiderman’s doctor
GPs are on the frontline of climate change
Meet Dr Chris Boberg
Patients provide poetic inspiration
Spirit of adventure leads to Distinguished Fellowship
The changing face of general practice
Visionary doctor awarded top College honour
A moment in TIME is helping to change the future
Changing lives, one plate at a time
Gisborne GP has a passion for the holistic approach
GP calls for cancer safety-netting
Meet Dr Kolitha de Silva
Meet the GPEP family
The challenges of GP work in Samoa
Revised telehealth position statement
What do our graduate doctors actually earn - and is it enough to keep them practising here?
Telehealth around the motu | Dunedin
Telehealth around the motu | Gore
Dr Bryan Betty to take up new role with GPNZ
Northland Faculty registrar seminar day
Auckland GPs and friends raise money for Anxiety New Zealand
Cook Islands Fellowship in General Practice awarded
The 2023 College Award nominations are open
GP23 conference early-bird registrations open
2023 College Board election
New Board member: Dr Caroline Christie
Board Apprentice role is an opportunity to shape future of healthcare system
Keynote speakers for GP23: The Conference for General Practice
The Really Great Russell Conference
There's 100 things to do
Northland Faculty Te Pūtahi art event
The extraordinary lives of practice managers and how to celebrate them
‘I can see clearly now’
Family of doctors; Father and son Tim and Richard Medlicott
The GP23 countdown is on
It's almost time for GP23
Results of the 2023 Greg Judkins Poetry Competition
GP23: Continuity of care – precious resource or obstacle?
‘Your work counts’: How GPs can better demonstrate the importance of their role
Smoking and vaping position statement released
College holiday hours
Summer Memoir creative writing contest
Summer Memoir contest results
Summer Memoir contest winner: Dr Lindsay Quennell
Summer Memoir contest winner: Dr Lucy O’Hagan
Clarification from the College: Comments made by the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association
2024 Greg Judkins Prize for Reflective Poetry
GP24: Peter Anyon address - Dr Zarah Allport
GP24: Fellowship and Awards ceremony oration
Voting open for the 2025 College election

Equity
Telehealth – offering equity via distance
Can screening save lives?
Shaped by communism, cancer and controversy
Steering the waka towards more equitable outcomes Andrew Little’s Opening Address to GP22: the Conference for General Practice
Another layer of burnout for Māori and Pasifika GPs
Understanding inequity for rural Māori
Proactive immunisation for Māori tamariki will save lives
Achieving Equity – working towards better outcomes for Māori patients
Serious changes needed to achieve transformative change for Pasifika peoples
Prioritising Māori and Pasifika for vaccination will save lives
Healing under the radar
Tradie, rugby player, father, doctor: How brick laying set the foundation for a career in medicine
Our vulnerable patients need us to keep doing this important work
Cum Scientia Caritas; with knowledge, compassion
The art of racism and how it’s effecting Māori health
The Meihana Model
This morning we began a ritual of encounter
Very, very good; not perfect
What building a school can teach us about health equity
A journey in Māori health: “we saved ourselves from extinction”
A vision of Māori equity for 2040

Clinical
A case of syphilis, computer errors, and missed swabs
PSA testing and a missed diagnosis
The health benefits of returning to work
Using an HPV test for primary cervical screening from July 2023
Using the Accelerated Silicosis Assessment Pathway
HDC decision
An allergic reaction to flucloxacillin
A delayed multiple sclerosis diagnosis
Not guilty by reason of insanity
Prevention of chronic migraine in New Zealand
Bowel cancer – symptoms, referrals, and early detection
Reworking how we think about meningococcal vaccines
Type 2 Diabetes: The Hidden Epidemic
We owe it to our kids to address poor housing
Whanganui practice’s decade-long approach to addressing burnout
Two lessons and an argument for data from recent HDC complaint
The role of radiation therapy in prostate cancer
Is Dry July preceded by monsoon June?
Inclusivity for transgender people/irawhiti/fa’afāfine/fa’atama
Gender diversity in general practice
Ending the doctor patient relationship; easier said than done?
Empowering rainbow whānau, one baby at a time
Delayed bowel cancer diagnosis for woman who later died
Clinical governance one size does not fit all!
Burnout tips for the professionally flammable
Palliative care in New Zealand is critically ill
ACC on concussion and other conundrums
Soul healing
Why happy, healthy doctors are better for patients
John Campbell on the art of unravelling stories without unravelling yourself
Breaking down barriers to PrEP access in Aotearoa New Zealand
The risks of NSAIDs
New study shows GPs are increasingly crucial to cancer care in New Zealand
Repeat prescribing - we can do better
Overcoming the challenges of endocrine therapy for breast cancer
LIUS funding big win for New Zealand women, says College
Youth vaping reduction campaign
HDC case – cognitive bias
Abysmal childhood immunisation rates a recipe for disaster
‘Tracking my own PSA levels saved my life’
The Ministry of Justice is improving the way deaths are reported to the coroner
Advice for GPs sharing children's information with parents
Men's Health Week
HDC case - sepsis
When experts disagree
Updated skin cancer treatment procedure for veterans
HDC case - delay in diagnosis of diabetes
Many ways to give this Daffodil Day
HDC case - adenoid tumour
HDC case - lump in neck
HDC case - oesophageal cancer
Review of HDC cases
HDC: A missed pulmonary embolus
HDC: Botox consent

Rural
Dr Branko Sijnja named as 2022 recipient of Peter Snow Memorial Award
The specialist’s specialist: Dr Jared Green new DHRM clinical lead
Celebrating rural resilience
Doctor by nature: Dr Jeremy Webber
Introducing Dr Jennifer James – Chair of the Board of Studies
Andrew Morgan: new Chair of the DRHM
Award-winner recognised for breaking down barriers
The happy tramper
Conference for junior doctors aims to build on bonds of shared experience
From the big city to the West Coast
Advocating for services out in the sticks
Rural GP hooked: 'Why would you want to live anywhere else?'
A life dedicated to rural medicine
From urban sprawl to urban bliss
Meet Dr Sophie Parnham
Meet Matilda Hamilton: Rural Hospital Doctor, teacher and mum of two
Rural hospital medicine an “adventure” for Dr Marc Gutenstein
Rural hospital medicine makes for an interesting life
Two doctors with an eye for innovation: the RiSC initiative to improve rural health care
Rural Medicine advocate: Meet Dr Tom Dawson
Hāwera's Dr Hannah Lawn finds happiness in the country
Meet Dr Emma Davey, Rural hospital doctor
Rural hospital doctor and high achiever
Rural hospital doctor puts down roots in Taranaki
Dr David Short – GP and rural hospital doctor
Meet Dr Marcus Walker, GP and rural hospital doctor

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