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  • Māori and Pasifika hardest hit by Delta; what will we do differently with Omicron?
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  • College calls for priority vaccines for Māori and Pasifika to prevent health system overwhelm
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  • Dr Jeff Lowe awarded Distinguished Fellowship at GP23
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  • Waikato GPs mahi to improve health inequity recognised with College award
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  • Promoting general practice and rural health to next generation recognised with College award
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Enter the 2025 Greg Judkins Poetry Competition
  • Budget 2025 misses opportunity to give primary care a leading role in addressing and improving healthcare in Aotearoa
  • Recognition of the GP workforce’s value to communities welcomed in funding announcement
  • New Medical Director appointed
  • General Practice training programme funding is a win for the future of the workforce
  • Highest GP honour acknowledging contribution to workforce awarded to five deserving recipients
  • Outstanding contributions to the College recognised with President’s Service Medal
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  • College of GPs Workforce Survey shows optimistic changes, but still more to be done to address core challenges for the future
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  • Three College Fellows receive 2021 New Year Honours
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  • Eruera Medical Centre the first practice to achieve new Foundation programme
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  • Leadership in the field - meet Dr Emily Cavana
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  • 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
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  • Fighting COVID-19 with a vaccination plan for an entire country
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  • Small, but mighty!
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  • Two College Fellows receive 2022 New Year Honours
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  • What he learnt at home; he took to the Olympics
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  • Patients provide poetic inspiration
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  • The changing face of general practice
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  • A moment in TIME is helping to change the future
  • Changing lives, one plate at a time
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  • The challenges of GP work in Samoa
  • Revised telehealth position statement
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  • Dr Bryan Betty to take up new role with GPNZ
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  • Keynote speakers for GP23: The Conference for General Practice
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  • Results of the 2023 Greg Judkins Poetry Competition
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  • 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
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  • Budget 2025 opinion: We don't need to create a new health service, we need to invest in the current one
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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