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Under-500 heroes: How small general practices survive with so few patients
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Under-500 heroes: How small general practices survive with so few patients
Wednesday 30 January 2019, 02:00 AM

Not for profit Servants Health Centre has around 360 enrolled patients. Staff include Sue Whittaker, Beth Stitely, Phil White, Sandy Ross and Katherine Halkett
Among the 950-plus New Zealand general practices serving more than 4.3 million enrolled patients, the median practice size is 3390 patients. Then there’s a handful of practices catering for far fewer. Simon Maude investigates how they manage to survive
I can see where smaller practices are struggling, but our practice as a charity takes us a bit outside the box and makes things a bit different for us, Elderly patient, Despite staffing, workload and bureaucracy issues, offering general practice services to resthomes is likely a growth business model
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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