COVID money masked practice losses: What was the ‘huge’ amount of funding paid to general practices?

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COVID money masked practice losses: What was the ‘huge’ amount of funding paid to general practices?

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GenPro chair Angus Chambers says COVID-19 funding obscured general practice’s growing financial unsustainability [Image: NZD]

Using the Official Information Act, Fiona Cassie discovers the Government’s three-year spend on COVID-19 general practice services was $900 million. A ‘huge amount’, or instead ‘papering over the cracks of unsustainable general practice’?

COVID-19 funding in the peak pandemic years masked the fact general practice funding is inadequate, says General Practice Owners Association chair Ang