Alan Perrott News Today

Alan Perrott grills a leader in genome sequencing and artificial intelligence on the future of healthcare

These are tough times for media - even those dedicated to covering big businesses and industries. After more than 20 years publishing health news and employing expert journalists, Barbara Fountain has done a deal to keep two important local titles alive. Could other once-lucrative trade publications follow suit?

Editor Barbara Fountain takes a look at the stories making the cover of New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa this year

Reporter Alan Perrott took this photo as he zipped through the Tron on the weekend

At the Rotorua GP CME 2023, New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa reporters Patrice Dougan, Maia Hall, Alan Perrott and Stephen Forbes were in attendance not just for the medical content but also to chat with and photograph conference delegates. Read all of our GP CME coverage as it goes up, here

After four months of lockdown in Auckland, it feels strange to think back on the National Rural Health Conference, held at the Wairakei Resort in Taupō earlier this year

The bar was set at the first stop on the first day of South Seas Healthcare’s new mobile clinic

Turuki Healthcare chief executive Te Puea Winiata sees opportunities for Māori providers to become even more innovative Members of the New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa team work through the official documents to find out what we know about the proposed health sector changes and talk to folk in the sector about what’s happening How the Māori Health Authority will operate still has to be worked out in a consultation process but, meanwhile, innovative health providers are excited by the poten...

“What are you going to do about the Māori smokers who are bringing this on themselves?” It was this loaded question that clearly lay behind commentary provided to researchers on a paper they submitted to the New Zealand Medical Journal

Thursday 7 January 2021, 12:00 PM The triage area at the South Seas Health-run CBAC in Otara which did not open until four weeks into the COVID-19 response We are on our summer break and the editorial office is closed until 18 January. In the meantime, please enjoy our Summer Hiatus series, in which our journalists curate an eclectic mix from our news and clinical archives throughout the year, The Conversation and other publications we share content with. Please note the comment function has be...