Opinion: Native GPs might be required to see greater than 80 % of sufferers inside every week, to satisfy a brand new goal set by Well being Minister Simeon Brown. It comes into impact in July, and is doubtlessly linked to a authorities intention to amend the capitation (largely population-based) funding system for normal practices’ enrolled sufferers, by making a part of it ‘performance-based’.
The response from GPs, together with their consultant our bodies, has ranged from scepticism to blunt condemnation. Dunedin’s Helensburgh Medical Centre GP Dr David McKay instructed NZ Physician the well being minister is “dreaming” except he first addresses the intense workforce shortages, on the coronary heart of sufferers’ prolonged waits.
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