General practices will soon be facing a huge shortage of GPs

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General practices will soon be facing a huge shortage of GPs

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Vanessa Weenink

Heidi Bubendorfer
Heidi Bubendorfer is secretary of the Practice Managers and Administrators Association of New Zealand

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Auckland practice manager Heidi Bubendorfer looks at the evidence for growing nurse practitioner numbers as a response to the shortage of GPs

International research in the last 30 years consistently shows NPs provide equivalent outcomes to medical practitioners A recent RNZCGP workforce
References

Pirret A, Neville S, La Grow S. Nurse practitioners versus doctors diagnostic reasoning in a complex case presentation to an acute tertiary hospital: A comparative study. Int J Nurs Stud 2014:52(3):716–26