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3 weeks ago | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Martin Johnston |Orna McGinn
+News In print PRACTICE PROFILE Waiheke practice celebrates the power of close-knit community Ostend Medical Centre and Waiheke Health Trust pride themselves on the deep connections and support they get from their local community [Image: Zahra Shahtahmasebi] Community isn’t just a concept on Waiheke Island.
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1 month ago | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Fiona Cassie |Zach Thompson |Orna McGinn
+Opinion In print Upfront Help! I’m drowning in tick-box exercises and black-hole dreaming GPs, who must juggle patient care with endless policy consultations, are frustrated by “tick-box” exercises that ignore clinical insight [Image: artisteer on iStock] As trust in health leadership erodes, it’s time for meaningful, bipartisan dialogue on New Zealand’s long-term health strategy, argues Orna McGinn Believing that clinical leadership depends on having “skin in the game”, I continue to see...
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Orna McGinn
+News ‘Collective action’ being taken by 80 per cent of English general practices: BMA The UK’s health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has described the GP collective action campaign as “sabre rattling” [Image: Jordhan Madec on Unsplash] ESSENTIALS
Around 8500 England-based GP members of the British Medical Association voted to take collective action, as part of a BMA campaig, READ MORE Oops, please login or sign up to read more. LOGIN SUBSCRIBE
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Zahra Shahtahmasebi |Orna McGinn
+News In print Women seeking abortion care prefer in-person over telehealth Abortion care is now within the scope of doctors, midwives, nurse practitioners and registered nurses and could be provided within primary care settings, a new report suggests [Image: iStock] ESSENTIALS
A survey of 126 women seeking abortions reveals that most value the option of first consulting a primary healthcare provider.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Zahra Shahtahmasebi |Orna McGinn
+Print Archive News Women seeking abortion care prefer in-person over telehealth Abortion care is now within the scope of doctors, midwives, nurse practitioners and registered nurses and could be provided within primary care settings, a new report suggests [Image: iStock] Key points
A survey of 126 women seeking abortions reveals that most value the option of first consulting a primary healthcare provider.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Zahra Shahtahmasebi |Orna McGinn
+News In print $75 payment cap for GP-led early medical abortion may go Improved funding for early medical abortions could enable more primary care services to offer the procedure directly to their patients [Image: iStock] Key points
Inadequate funding is a significant barrier in preventing primary and community care providers from offering early abortion services., BACK panel - grey Oops, please login or sign up to read more. LOGIN SUBSCRIBE Related Articles
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Orna McGinn
+Opinion In print GP as general factotum: Working in an island practice a back-in-time experience Not everyone living on picturesque Waiheke Island is a vintner or oligarch [Image: Look Up Look Down Photography on Unsplash] Orna McGinn gets to see behind the tourism images of island life and finds an off-the-grid underbelly, along with severe practice under-resourcing I am rheumatologist, liver specialist, renal ‘medicine man’, neurologist, gender-affirmingtherapy provider, cardiologist and...
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Orna McGinn
+Print Archive Opinion GP as general factotum: Working in an island practice a back-in-time experience Not everyone living on picturesque Waiheke Island is a vintner or oligarch [Image: Look Up Look Down Photography on Unsplash] Orna McGinn gets to see behind the tourism images of island life and finds an off-the-grid underbelly, along with severe practice under-resourcing I am rheumatologist, liver specialist, renal ‘medicine man’, neurologist, gender-affirmingtherapy provider, cardiologist...
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Orna McGinn
+Opinion In print Unwrapping the Kiwi Christmas: Contradictions, conundrums…and connections The summer Christmas phenomenon focusing on sun, sand and surf can fall short of expectations [Image: Pixooz on iStock] Christmas isn’t for everyone, writes Orna McGinn. There’s often a disconnection between expectations and reality.
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
nzdoctor.co.nz | Martin Johnston |Fiona Thomas |Orna McGinn
+Business In print Business Corporates on the move in UK general practice market Babylon needed to be ‘super careful’ about expanding its UK GP services as it was losing money on every patient [Image: NZD] England’s largest NHS practice, GP at Hand, is being rebranded as eMed GP at Hand following the sale of its founder, private digital healthcare provid Oops, please login or sign up to read more. LOGIN SUBSCRIBE Related Articles
