Urgent-care clinics on a knife edge

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Urgent-care clinics on a knife edge

Martin
Johnston
night shift doctor
It is getting harder for cooperative GP after-hours schemes to convince their members to take on shifts [image: prpicturesproduction on iStock]

COVID-19 and influenza are making it harder to staff New Zealand’s urgent-care clinics. Martin Johnston discovers the problem is getting worse as winter marches on

Many patients come to the centre because they face a wait of many weeks to see their own GP After-hours shifts are unpopular with many GPs, leadi