Pandemic timing not ideal for DHBs meant to be shifting more care out of hospitals

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Pandemic timing not ideal for DHBs meant to be shifting more care out of hospitals

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DHB Planned Care-funded services include removing skin lesions

Fiona Cassie casts around for any signs of a flurry of elective procedures being shifted into primary care as a result of the Planned Care strategy

Planned Care should be bringing more services out of hospitals and into primary care, but COVID-19 has intervened. The pandemic backlog created a b