Patient strain on the plain falls mostly away

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Patient strain on the plain falls mostly away

Anthony Smit
Keeping Hauraki Plains Health Centre sustainable, with its “fairly static” patient numbers has required efficiencies from the health care home model, GP Anthony Smit says

In his third story on Hauraki Plains general practices, Simon Maude visits Ngatea’s Hauraki Plains Health Centre, a practice well into implementing the health care home model

Patients have to understand the health care home model, it takes them a while to get it. They get really shitty when they’re told “we’ll put you on th, Hauraki Plains, Dr Smit hopes the CSC will see many patients return to the Ngatea practice, instead of making the 50km round trip to visit the closest VLCA practices