Med Safety Week
Monday 7 November 2022
It's Med Safety Week. Medsafe monitors the safety of medicines to help protect patients from harm.
- Working to improve health outcomes for all through research, teaching and service in general practice & rural health.
- Recognising Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing an environment that nurtures our people, values, and goals.
- Committed to person-centredness in health care and education, generalism, rurality, interprofessionalism and integration across the health system.
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Primary Health Care, General Practice and Rural Health Research Symposium: 27-29 August 2021
News
Health outcomes for rural communities may be poorer than previously thought
Friday 5 August 2022
A joint project by the Universities of Otago and Waikato to reclassify what is considered rural in a health context will provide more accurate data of differences in health outcomes between rural and urban areas.
Researchers receive funding to investigate use and safety of anti-nausea drug in pregnancy
Wednesday 28 July 2021
Associate Professor Lianne Parkin and colleagues from the Pharmacoepidemiology Research Network have been awarded $1.2 million from the Health Research Council of New Zealand to investigate the use and safety of an anti-nausea drug during pregnancy.
