PHO survey triggers practices’ low-pulse alarm 

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This article was first published on 3 October.

From Martin: As well as reiterating the troubled state of general practice, this story was the beginning of the fees-review-cafe-in-a-practice mini-drama. The idea had popped up in the anonymised PHOs survey but seemed implausible, so I left it to the last paragraph. WellSouth later corroborated it on RNZ, without naming the mystery practice