UK pushes out long-term plan. Where is ours?

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UK pushes out long-term plan. Where is ours?

Martin Hefford

Martin Hefford

NHS march
The NHS is investing the equivalent of about $NZ3 million per 50,000 population – about $NZ60 per enrolled person – to bolster it parlous primary care system

Martin Hefford, chief executive of Tū Ora Compass Health is writing from a 12-week sabbatical in the UK, hosted by the Kings Fund in London and the Health Service Management Centre in Birmingham

"So yes, the NHS primary care system may be in a parlous state, but at least they recognise it and are taking action" GP colleagues were a bit wo