Legislation is currently being amended to allow prescribers to in certain circumstances prescribe 12-months of medication. Prescribers will be responsible for determining the clinically appropriate prescription length and can prescribe for shorter periods or longer periods of time. It is expected the legislation and IT systems (such as PMS and pharmacy systems) are coming into effect on 1 February 2026.

Since 2008, the Pinnacle New Graduate Nurse Programme has helped practices support new graduate nurses with funding, workshops, and peer support. In 2025, a key change was introduced with the launch of a new national funding stream from Te Whatu Ora, aimed at supporting up to 400 graduate registered nurses across primary care, community, and rural health settings.

Tui Ora’s outreach immunisation service (OIS) supports 29 general practices across Taranaki by reaching out to whānau and tamariki who face barriers to accessing scheduled immunisations. Pinnacle is supporting the programme for around two years to help lift childhood immunisation rates.

The Foundation programme represents a collection of legislative, regulatory and clinical requirements for all general practices in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Resources for the assessment and management of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (AUB) in non-pregnant women of reproductive age group.

Founded on Māori concepts, views of health, tikanga (Māori values/practices) and Te Tiriti o Waitangi, this resource aims to contribute to providing services and understanding that is responsive to Māori rights/rites, needs and interests.

The Power BI dashboards are designed to give you clinically useful information that will help you to improve the care of your patients. Our clinical dashboard programme aims to provide focussed data visualisations of your own practice information. The dashboards will give you practical outcomes for individual patients and populations, and in particular support pro-equity activity.

Pinnacle provides a free service for member practices, representing contracted providers in PSAAP negotiations.

All Pinnacle practices can now use the new Practice Portal — a secure, easy-to-use hub for claims, remittance reports, payment files, and sharing documents, designed to save time and give you clearer oversight.

This year, a new six-week immunisation performance-based funding measure has been introduced as part of the 2025/2026 primary care immunisation performance measures for Pinnacle practices. Since the announcement, we’ve been working with Te Whatu Ora to validate data and ensure practices will have clear visibility of their performance and funding received.