A WINTER’S TALE - Winter, workforce and capitation weigh heavily on general practice

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A WINTER’S TALE - Winter, workforce and capitation weigh heavily on general practice

Martin
Johnston
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Influenza, COVID-19, shortages of GPs and nurses, underfunding, red tape, burnout, and a sense of being critical to New Zealanders’ wellbeing and yet strangely overlooked. That’s the situation reporter Martin Johnston detects in general practice this winter

Our findings, In a New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa subscriber survey, with 117 respondents who were mostly GPs: 59 per cent ticked chronic conditions as thei, BACK panel - grey