Rating Simeon Brown: Primary care feeling ‘more pessimistic’

March kicked off with a flurry of health announcements; it was a lot to take in. So, to gauge readers’ reactions to the various funding initiatives, we at New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa decided to take a straw poll. We surveyed Daily Triage email newsletter subscribers, asking ‘What do you reckon?’ about the health minister’s Primary Care Package. The process ran from 13 to 17 March and had 102 responses. The main results story can be found in our April issue. Deputy editor Patrice Dougan delves deeper into the findings