NZ DR COLUMNS
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The Chair of IPAC writes a monthly column for the NZ Doctor. The NZ Doctor is a national fortnightly newspaper serving the Primary Health Care Sector. The columns written by IPAC's Chair address topics such as issues being currently debated, issues affecting General Practice and the wider Primary Care sector and issues relating to IPAC's role and influence within the Primary Care sector.
July 30 NZ Dr Column - Seeking united voice for general practice
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"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately" This quote from...
30/07/2008June 18 NZ Dr Column - Sector not as healthy as survey suggests
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"Survey shows New Zelanders are healthier" - this 4 June ministerial press statement...
May 07 NZ Dr Column - IPAC08 ticks the three Ps
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Interesting people, interesting programme, and interesting participation...
07/05/2008
Mar 26 NZ Dr Column - Vigilance urged over 'Firm State Control'
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Otago University's Professr Robin Gauld has just published...
26/03/2008
Feb 13 NZ Dr Column - Lost Opportunities
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Call me a dreamer, but I think there must have been a better way...
13/02/2008
Dec 05 NZ Dr Column - The Year That Was
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Last week in Hobart, members of the IPAC Executive joined...
05/12/2007
Nov 07 NZ Dr Column - Implementation Destined to Fail
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Several years ago I attended a Pegasus Health AGM...
07/11/2007
Oct 11 NZ Dr Column - All that Glitters is Not Gold
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At a press confernce last week...
11/10/2007
Sept 12 NZ Dr Column - A Day of Study: Accountability and Complexity of General Practice
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Yesterday I spent the first day of Spring studying...
12/09/2007
Aug 07 NZ Dr Column - OGP & Tribalism
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August is often a reflective month...
07/08/2007
Jul 17 NZ Dr Column - Mischevious Moves by Nurse Authors.
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Last Monday was a great day in general practice...
17/07/2007
May 20 NZ Dr Column - We need "High trust, low bureaucracy.
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Few things help an individual more...
21/06/2007
May 05 NZ Dr Column - It's a simple theory.
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I am writing this column, as IPAC Chair Bev O'Keefe...
23/05/2007
Apr 17 NZ Dr Column - Consultation: The New Phenomenon in Health.
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Thrust into the spotlight by the recent Auckland laboratory High Court...
17/04/2007
Mar 19 NZ Dr Column - De-mystifying the PSAAP Process.
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Ask any GP about the business of IPAC, and the likely...
19/03/2007
Feb 18 NZ Dr Column - General Practice Leadership.
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General Practice leadership is again under the spotlight...
18/02/2007
Jan 23 NZ Dr Column - PHO Performance or Governance of General Practice?
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2007 has arrived. Hopefully locums materialized, and you enjoyed...
23/01/2007
Nov 29 NZ Dr Column - Study Tour Reveals a Dash of IT Envy.
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Below is Dr Bev O'Keefe's first NZ Dr Column as IPAC's new Chair. The piec...
06/12/2006
NZ Dr Column August 2006 - NO HARLEYS ON THE DANCE FLOOR THIS YEAR!
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Are you tired of the daily grind? Does your enthusiasm for working in gene...
14/08/2006
NZ Dr Column June 06.
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Health Politics is a Team Sport...
15/06/2006
Curtains for the Helen & Michael Show
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Given that it is not that very long since the IPAC conference...
13/07/2005
How about we all stick to fee policy
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It is disappointing to IPAC that the fees general practices...
23/05/2005
DHBs must step up to mark for PHOs
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District Health Boards have been established for some time...
18/05/2005