Rural urgent and afterhours care is in crisis in the southern region, says a major rural review report, with workforce and funding support needed so clinicians are not “consistently overloaded”
A briefing to the health minister about the urgent-care sector shows reduced hours and changes to the model of care are possible outcomes of insufficient funding, as Martin Johnston reports
A briefing to the health minister about the urgent-care sector shows reduced hours and changes to the model of care are possible outcomes of insufficient funding, as Martin Johnston reports
Two general practices have pulled the plug on their urgent-care clinic contracts – one pushed and one jumping – after staffing and funding issues saw them struggle to meet ACC requirements
A lobbied-for overnight urgent care service will be kick-started in Wānaka in a few months, funded by Te Whatu Ora as an “interim solution” for local healthcare needs
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora will partner with Central Otago Health Services Limited to provide a new urgent primary care service in Wānaka for the next 12 months
The general practice crisis in the Far North has forced Kaitaia Hospital to coordinate and fund a primary care after-hours service on site for the past year
The revelation Te Whatu Ora is offering to directly employ first-year GP registrars, which emerged during a row over a media statement from the Resident Doctors’ Association about its strike notice, ‘Te Whatu Ora planning to take over employment of first year GP trainees’ (online 23 April), sparked a number of comments – two calling it a “train wreck”
The general practice crisis in the Far North has forced Kaitaia Hospital to coordinate and fund a primary care after-hours service on site for the past year
The news that staff at a Victoria urgent care centre posed as patients to ensure the centre looked busy when the health minister visited, sounds like a storyline worthy of an Australian TV comedy
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