General practice negotiators today rejected the annual capitation increase as too low and are seeking last minute talks with the health ministry and DHBs to boost the funding offer
Primary health negotiators will find out on Tuesday what share of the DHBs’ nine percent Budget funding increase will be passed on to general practices
The Budget investment in the general practice workforce that has put its life at risk under COVID-19 has underwhelmed and disappointed Primary Health Alliance chair Angus Chambers
The COVID-19 threat to general practice viability has brought forward the launch of a new organisation representing general practice owners, says its interim chair Tim Malloy
Some hard-hitting and high profile names are behind a new association which has been established to represent front-line general practice owner-operators and urgent care providers in what it describes as a direct response to the Covid-19 threat to general practice sustainability and the previously mounting dissatisfaction across the sector
An RNZCGP survey confirms many GPs struggling and some lost jobs as the sector awaits next week’s Cabinet decision on about $10 million a week in lockdown relief funding
The “new normal” will see the first official annual funding talks for primary care still going ahead tomorrow but online, and with COVID-19 high on the agenda
DHBs are considering how much to provide to general practice to cover increasing costs – amid a dispute on how much it would take to get practice nurses to the same salary as DHB nurses
Primary care leaders are pushing for the next Budget to allow general practice capitation funding to take health inequities and high needs into account
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