Rebecca is in her first year of the General Practice Education Programme. Her choice of profession is no accident.
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Earlier this year, Auckland’s Tongan Health Society was awarded GP practice of the year at the inaugural Primary Healthcare Awards.
Auckland Faculty members and their friends and family embarked on the Round the Bays Fun Run/Walk for 2020.
The Wellington Faculty takes a trip to Kāpiti Island.
Having worked in general practice for over 30 years, College Fellow Dr Alastair Fraser recently reflected on his time working within primary healthcare
Sitting in a laboratory late one night working on his biochemistry research, Dr Chris Boberg looked around at the test tubes on his bench and realised his real passion was for working with people.
As our newsfeeds are with images of the Australian bushfires, Dr Robin Barraclough is taken back to the first time the impact of climate change really hit him.
Information on how GPs can help with the tragic Australian bushfires.
Meet College Fellow Dr Dermot Coffey, an executive member of OraTaiao, the NZ Climate and Health Council.
Husband and wife Musab Hassan and Natasha Ismail got more than they bargained for when Musab entered the GPEP programme in 2014.
An article in TIME magazine 13 years ago changed the course of Dr Rebecca Randerson's life , seeing her become one of the founding executive members of OraTaiao, the NZ Climate and Health Council for health professionals.
Renowned Sāmoan GP and lexicographer, Papa'ali'itele Dr Semisi Ma'ia'i passed away on Friday 8 November 2019.
The news that Pharmac has agreed to fully fund the Mirena and Jaydess contraceptives from 1 November 2019 has been welcomed by women and family planning practitioners all over the country.
Distinguished Fellow, Professor Les Toop from the WONCA2020 organising committee was recently interviewed about general practice in New Zealand and his hopes for the conference
Taking health check-ups to the farm gate has proved successful for College Fellow Dr Sue Fowlie, from Rakaia Medical Practice in Canterbury.
Dr Sophie Parnham is close to completion of dual training in both Emergency Medicine (Australasian College) and Rural Hospital Medicine (College’s Division of Rural Hospital Medicine).
This August we will be launching our 2020 Workforce Survey and we’re inviting all College members to take part.
Dr Nina Bevin (Waikato-Tainui) is the College’s new Board Apprentice. The appointment was announced by College President Dr Samantha Murton at the College’s AGM on 25 July 2020.
College Fellow, Dr Pauline Horrill is a convenor and teacher of postgraduate primary health care papers at the University.
Alliance health Plus PHO held their annual awards recently, celebrating outstanding achievement in primary care.
College Fellow Dr Rachel Shouler caught up with Hepatitis Foundation of New Zealand clinician Dr Alex Lampen-Smith.
We recently talked to Dr Justine Lancaster from HealthPathways about how the organisation supported, and still supports, GPs and primary care workers during COVID-19.
“We’re all in this together” was the advertising slogan and battle cry of the Government’s COVID-19 response, but was that really the case?
Improving equity in healthcare is a key commitment of the College’s, which is making progress towards that goal with the recent launch of an equity module as part of Cornerstone.
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