Beyond wishing: No fees? Targeted fees? Get primary care funding sorted!

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Beyond wishing: No fees? Targeted fees? Get primary care funding sorted!

Martin
Johnston
Dandelion, wish,

Primary care has been calling for a funding review for most of the last decade, but the last Labour-led Government delivered instead the Health and Disability System Review. Almost no one in health believes the current funding arrangement works for New Zealanders – let alone for those with high needs. With no guaranteed answers under a new government, Martin Johnston goes in search of a workable formula

Many of the refugees on the books at GP Bryan Betty’s clinic in Cannons Creek, Porirua, are traumatised by the horrors they have fled. At the clinic,