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South GPCME 2026

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Delegates, speakers and exhibitors mingled at the South GPCME welcome function at Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre in August. With 1200 attendees, it was the biggest turnout for the southern conference since it started 17 years ago, closing in on attendance numbers at its Rotorua counterpart, which is moving to Hamilton next year. Editor Barbara Fountain and southern correspondent Fiona Cassie caught up with delegates over a couple of days 

Willow Medical Centre specialist GP Katie Wheeler; visitor Fiona Blythe; Fiordland Medical Practice nurse Sheena Pottinger; Fiordland Medical Practice specialist GP Paula King [Image: NZD]

CardioScan Aotearoa general manager Jez Morris; specialist GP locum Naomi Pettigrew; Vercoe Brown and Associates NP Julie Smith [Image: NZD]

University of Otago Christchurch medical students Sam O’Hara and James Simpson [Image: NZD]

University of Otago Student Health nurse Rupert Reyes and specialist GP Simone Hart; Queenstown Medical Centre GP Jo Cannon; Dubai College GP Nicola Ford; Dunedin Urgent Doctors and Accident Centre nurse Julie Williams [Image: NZD]

University of Otago Student Health nurse Rupert Reyes; Piki te Ora and Ara Poutama Christchurch Women’s Prison specialist GP Katie Shillito; Eastern Bays Health Centre specialist GP Laura Garlick [Image: NZD]

Kelburn GPs specialist GP Mary English; Devon Medical Centre specialist GP Christina Ng [Image: NZD]

Shorecare Urgent Care Clinic nurses Allyson Lee and Dani Jones [Image: NZD]

Medtech Global’s Chrissie Patterson, Liz Agnew and Will Reedy; Webtools chief growth officer Al Duncan; Tend Health chief medical officer Graham Denyer [Image: NZD]

Hornby Medical Centre specialist GP Pedram Zawarreza; Clutha Health First specialist GPs Branko Sijnja and Eric Bradfield [Image: NZD]

Perth-based Business for Doctors specialist GP April Armstrong; Grace Medicals’ Fredric Doss; William Francis-Dittmer, administration and Stuart Francis, business broker, both with health specialist ABC Business Sales [Image: NZD]

GPDocs’ David Bates; Intuitive Therapeutics’ Sam Williams; GPDocs’ Bronwyn Cook [Image: NZD]

Temuka Family Practice specialist GP Katy Burton; Boehringer Ingelheim’s Sheryl Hume and Tony Davison; Temuka Family Practice specialist GP Bryan Moore [Image: NZD]

Carefirst specialist GP Geoff Putt; Boehringer Ingelheim’s Nicola Gibson-Groot [Image: NZD]

Visitor Aaron Hall; Medplus GP Inga Minina; Ngakawau Health Clinic nurse Maxine Rhodes [Image: NZD]

Takapuna Health practice manager Bethan Rajwer; Island Bay Medical Centre specialist GP Richard Medlicott; Taradale Medical Centre specialist GP Mark Peterson [Image: NZD]

Onslow Medical Centre specialist GP Kirsten Wadsworth; Ropata Health specialist GP Gillian Yardley; Ropata Health specialist GP Cheryl Archer [Image: NZD]

Broadway Medical Centre GP Pip Ross; Mauri Ora – Victoria University Student Health GP Sam McConville [Image: NZD]

New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa editor Barbara Fountain; thePHO chief executive Tony Wai [Image: NZD]

Plimmer Steps Medical Centre specialist GP Kimberley Williams; South Link Education Trust chief executive Karl Andrews; Hato St John’s Cath Timlin; Hutt City Health Centre nurse Melissa Tait; Hutt City Health Centre specialist GP Kate Wright [Image: NZD]

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