GPs – endangered species or health system panacea?

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GPs – endangered species or health system panacea?

Doug Hill
Bucket grey metal CR Lucas Van Oort on Unsplash
The capitation “money bucket” has not kept pace with the evolving specialty of general practice [Image: Lucas van Oort on Unsplash]

Doug Hill is a specialist GP in Dunedin. Like many, he is worried about the endgame for general practice. He provides some reminders of how far general practice has come and is left wondering why it now finds itself at a crisis point

As a local clinical leader, I have repeatedly sat in (former) DHB meetings where the anti-GP rhetoric is palpable I have been a GP for almost 25