Pinnacle has partnered with NZ Shores to offer a streamlined recruitment and immigration service for general practices across our network. NZ Shores is a specialist immigration and recruitment agency that assists employers and skilled migrants in navigating New Zealand’s immigration system, bringing a smooth and compliant process for hiring internationally trained professionals.

Based on resources available through the Medical Council of New Zealand, this resource is designed to help you cover the bases and reduce the workload of forming your own processes.

We are not here to replace your current HR support, but to add value where we can. Currently we proactively support practices in a range of ways and respond to adhoc enquiries. We believe we can continue to offer you great learning opportunities and practical HR solutions that are relevant to your practice needs.

Find out about the physician associate (PA) role, scope and education, including information about the benefits to your practice and if a PA is a fit for you.

Employers can get accreditation to use the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) to hire migrants on visas for up to 3 years. You must pay at least the NZ median wage, unless the role is on an exemption list, and show that you cannot find suitable New Zealanders first.

The clinical assistant role, recently introduced at Tu Ora Compass, is designed to support GP's administration burden (processing results in particular). Tu Ora have shared a suite of resources.

Helen Parker, Pinnacle chief executive, has interesting conversations with people around the network and her Pin Pods podcast is designed to share these conversations. In this chat with Wendy Harris, non-GP owner and business manager of Cambridge Medical Centre, Wendy discusses her non-GP journey into ownership and the benefits she thinks it's brought to the practice.