The New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) is an association representing some doctors and medical students in
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
. It was officially founded after a meeting in April 1886 at
Dunedin Hospital
Dunedin Hospital is the main public hospital in Dunedin, New Zealand. It serves as the major base hospital for the Otago and Southland regions with a potential catchment radius of roughly 300 kilometres, and a population of around 300,000.
Opera ...
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From 1896 to 1967, the NZMA was considered as a branch of the
British Medical Association and was known as the New Zealand Branch of the British Medical Association well into the 1970s.
In the 1960s,
Erich Geiringer
Erich Geiringer (31 January 1917 – 24 August 1995) was a New Zealand writer, publisher, broadcaster, Fulbright scholar 1953, a leading member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), and the founder of the New Zeal ...
, who was in conflict with the association, exploited the potential for confusion by founding the New Zealand Medical Association (since this name was officially free). Geiringer's NZMA included a number of progressive physicians and was very involved in political debates.
The NZMA is part of the
World Medical Association
The World Medical Association (WMA) is an international and independent confederation of free professional medical associations representing physicians worldwide. WMA was formally established on September 18, 1947 and has grown to 115 national ...
and publishes ''
The New Zealand Medical Journal
''The New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ)'' is a peer review, peer-reviewed medical journal. It is the official journal of the New Zealand Medical Association.
Description
The ''NZMJ'' was established in September 1887 by the New Zealand Branch of ...
''.
In May 2022, the Board of the NZMA recommended to members that at a meeting on 30 May 2022, they should vote to liquidate the association, because of long-standing financial difficulties caused by falling support. On 30 May the members voted to liquidate.
See also
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List of New Zealand doctors
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Health care in New Zealand
The healthcare system of New Zealand has undergone significant changes throughout the past several decades. From an essentially fully public system based on the Social Security Act 1938, reforms have introduced market and health insurance elem ...
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Medical associations based in New Zealand
1886 establishments in New Zealand
Organisations based in New Zealand with royal patronage