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Nurse practitioners have been given the 'thumbs up' by the public as providers of primary health care. Seven focus groups of almost 80 people conducted around Australia rated how acceptable [...]

Practices that are further along in implementing elements of the patient-centered medical home tend to view the concept as valuable to practice and patient care, and regard financial incentives as [...]

As the primary health care (PHC) sector continues to change, often at what seems like the whim of government or regional governance groups, the College of PHC Nurses continues to [...]

Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) is to extend its physician assistant (PA) 'pilot' to primary health care, with some rural practices in the Midlands Health Network's (MHN) catchment poised to [...]

Response from NZNO to the announcement a trial of a practice assistant role will be held in a number of Auckland GP practices next year has been mixed. The trial [...]

Although an estimated 40 to 50 percent of adults visiting their primary care doctors may have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), most are not asked about symptoms, according to a study [...]

Study Looks at Coordination between Emergency and Primary Care Physicians: An examination of emergency and primary care physicians' ability--and willingness--to communicate found that haphazard communication and poor coordination can undermine [...]

NZNO members working in primary health care (PHC) have overwhelmingly endorsed the NZNO-negotiated PHC multi-employer collective agreement (MECA). Ninety-nine percent of those who voted in the postal ballot conducted in [...]

Collaborative effort can achieve great things, according to Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) federal president Coral Levett. Two years ago, the ANF brought a number of nursing organisations together to form [...]

Beginning in July 2011, The Joint Commission will expand the process of accrediting ambulatory health care organizations to those who are also interested in electing the primary care home option. [...]

New Zealand, along with many other western health care systems, is experiencing significant challenges to existing health care delivery--an ageing population, the increasing burden of those with long-term health conditions [...]

Rural nurses are looking forward to the formation of the new college of primary health care (PHC) nurses. In the past, due to the generalist nature of their work, their [...]

Policymakers at the state and federal level should remove regulatory barriers that make it difficult for nurse practitioners and physician assistants to serve as primary care providers and lead primary [...]

NZNO has identified a range of risks in the nine expressions of interest (EoI) received from primary health care (PHC) providers. In September last year, the Ministry of Health catted [...]

Six months after Primary Health Care severed its ties with Broadlawns Medical Center, the executive director of the provider of health-care services for poor and underinsured Iowans is on a [...]