This month, over 5000 rural school pupils will learn about rural health careers through the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network’s rural school tours. Groups of tertiary health students will visit 50 high schools throughout the Bay of Plenty, .
Saturday, 22 May 2021, 4:17 pm
The New Zealand Rural General Practice Network is
remaining optimistic about the future of rural health
despite the lack of focus it received in yesterday’s
Budget announcement.
Network Chief Executive Dr Grant
Davidson says that this is frustrating given the attention
Health Minister Andrew Little gave to primary and community
care in his opening speech at the National Rural Health
Conference only three weeks ago.
“Was that the same
Minister that spoke at our conference on the Health Reforms
and the focus on primary and community care? Because this
just hasn’t been reflected in this Budget,” he
Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 1:16 pm
Members of the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network
(the Network) held up green cards in show of support for the
proposal to form a collective organisation Hauora Taiwhenua
Rural Health Network on Saturday 1 May 2021.
During
the Network’s AGM at the National Rural Health Conference
in Taupō, the Network Board put forward the proposal to
form Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network and to transition
the Network’s functions and role to this new organisation
over a 12-month period.
More members turned up for
this AGM than ever before to show their support and have
their say on the future of the Network, and the resolutions