Kahira Davis and Taryn Gillespie have been named Pinnacle’s Kia Puāwai education fund recipients, recognising two wāhine who are committed to their communities and are ready to take the next step in their own growth.

This week (15 April), midwives in Hamilton celebrated an important milestone in a project aimed at making immunisation easier to access for hapū māmā, pēpi and whānau.

A new Journal of Primary Health Care article from the RNZCGP’s Your Work Counts project has quantified what general practice teams have long known: a large share of GP work happens outside the consultation room.

This afternoon (Friday 28 November) when the doors at Fairfield Medical Centre close for the weekend, it’ll mark the end of an era. Not a building, not a service line, but a relationship that has stretched across decades and generations.

In June we presented Kia Puāwai awards to three recipients from across our network and community.

Pinnacle Midlands Health Network clinical director Dr Jo Scott-Jones has been appointed to the government’s new Primary Care Advisory Group (PCAG), a ministerial committee established to maximise the contribution of primary care within Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system.

We’re proud to celebrate Dr Brendon Eade and Dr Sarah Callaghan, who are among 12 GPs recognised with the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners Community Service Medal for their outstanding contributions to community health.

In a rural Waikato town, four physician associates (PAs) are helping reshape what’s possible in general practice, and what it means to serve a community.

A group of new graduate nurses recently attended an orientation day as part of Pinnacle’s longstanding nurse graduate programme, a unique initiative designed to support and strengthen the primary care nursing workforce.

Pinnacle welcomes the lowering of the age of eligibility for free bowel screening to 58 as a positive step toward earlier cancer detection, however, reallocating funding from the targeted Māori and Pasifika programme is inherently inequitable.