News & blogs

13 June 2025

Research confirms primary care pro-equity approaches improve diabetes care

21 May 2025

Budget 2025 offers limited relief for primary care

Following the pre-Budget announcement on rural and after-hours care, and the plethora of wide ranging workforce initiatives announced several months ago, Budget 2025 has fallen somewhat short for primary care. While we hoped for more, this year’s ‘fiscally restrained’ budget, is aptly named.

18 May 2025

World Family Doctor Day 2025

This year, World Family Doctor Day (Monday 19 May) highlights the role family doctor's play in supporting patient and community mental health and wellbeing.

11 May 2025

International Nurses Day 2025

Across the globe today we celebrate International Nurses Day and this year’s theme 'our nurses, our future: caring for nurses strengthens economies' has never been more relevant. Pinnacle is so fortunate to have dedicated, capable and expert nurses working across the network, and in our practices.

12 March 2025

Pinnacle’s nurse graduate programme continues to build the future of primary care nursing

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.

11 March 2025

Government’s health focus encouraging, but primary care needs clear investment

Pinnacle welcomes the focus on strengthening primary care access, investment in general practice, and commitments to digital health infrastructure.

5 March 2025

Pinnacle welcomes investment in nursing workforce

Yesterday’s announcement in funding to boost primary care nursing is a well-deserved and much-needed investment in the sector. This initiative will help strengthen the workforce, improve access to care, and support the communities that rely on us.

5 March 2025

Lowering bowel screening age welcomed, but reallocation of funding raises equity concerns

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.