Media Releases 2003

• 19 December 2003

  New alliance to boost health care standards

  Primary health provider Raukura Hauora O Tainui Trust and the College of GPs are to work together on workforce development and training. read more

• 17 December 2003

  Healthier New Zealanders: Building Primary Care Research

  Primary health care research needs a protected, ring-fenced fund, believes the College of GPs. read more

• 5 December 2003

  Dr R W Gorringe

  The Council of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (the College) notified Dr R W Gorringe on the 25th of November of its intention, pursuant to clause 8.5 of the College’s constitution, to consider his expulsion from membership of the College at its Council meeting of 5th December. read more

• 2 December 2003

  Government needs to heed the messages

  The College of GPs has been trying to convey to the Government since April exactly the same messages contained in the Victoria University health researchers’ report on the first year of Primary Health Organisations. read more

• 1 September 2003

  Changes okay but still compliance cost issues

  The College of GPs is generally supportive of changes made to the Health (Screening Programmes) Amendment Bill reported back to the House by the Health Select Committee yesterday. read more

• 14 August 2003

  New Scholarships will help alleviate shortages

  Government moves to introduce Step Up scholarships for medical students will alleviate developing shortages in primary health care, believes the College of GPs. read more

• 13 August 2003

  Reducing violence towards children

  The College of GPs welcomes, as a “beginning point for change”, the re-drafting of New Zealand First MP Brian Donnelly’s Bill aimed at reducing violence towards children. read more

• 6 July 2003

  Lift for general practice recruitment

  An extra million dollars of Government funding for GP training will lift general practice recruitment, believes College of GPs president Dr Helen Rodenburg. read more

• 3 July 2003

  Focus on patient safety, not finding and punishing scapegoats

  New Zealand’s GPs are ready to back the National Cervical Screening Programme as recommended by eminent pathologist Dr Euphemia McGoogan, but it needs to be properly funded and focused, believes College of GPs president Dr Helen Rodenburg. read more

• 20 June 2003

  To Screen or not to Screen often patient choice

  Many patients choose to be screened for prostate cancer despite the lack of good evidence on the effectiveness of screening, according to Blenheim GP Dr Jim Vause, incoming president of the College of GPs. read more

• 8 May 2003

  Viable but vulnerable

  The role of District Health Boards in implementing the Primary Health Care Strategy requires much greater scrutiny and management, according to the CEO of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, Claire Austin. read more

• 3 April 2003

  Importance of GP continuity of care

  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. read more

• 13 March 2003

  Overseas doctors outnumber Kiwis

  Overseas-trained doctors were 62 percent of those who sat the Primex for general practice in 2002, slightly up on the previous year. read more

• 17 February 2003

  College backs professorial call for ad ban

  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. read more