No easy task: Planned Care gets moving - DHBs shift focus to primary care with three-year plans

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No easy task: Planned Care gets moving - DHBs shift focus to primary care with three-year plans

Hospital corridor
Shifting more services out of hospitals and into primary care is one aim of the DHBs' first Planned Care plans

The pandemic delayed them and the health reforms might usurp them. Three-year Planned Care plans are under way at DHBs, which themselves are to last for less than a year. Fiona Cassie reports on how they affect general practice

What is Planned Care?, In 2019, what was traditionally described as “elective” or non-acute medical or surgical care was relaunched as Planned Care to reflect the focus shif