Funding twilight zone: hospitals eating primary healthcare system

For years, New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa has been running commentary articles on the problem faced by primary care as it sits in the shadow of secondary services and secondary services funding. We're browsing through the archives to bring some of those commentaries back to light. This one published in the 15 February 2017 issue comes from then Pinnacle Midlands Network chief executive John Macaskill-Smith, now chief executive of Spark Health - Editor