New Zealand's general medical practitioners (GPs) are facing a crisis, with a workforce shortage set to worsen over the next decade unless immediate action is taken to support workforce expansion and development.
The health of all New Zealanders and the delivery of top-tier healthcare heavily relies on community-based medical care, mainly provided by Specialist GPs and multi-disciplinary health care teams.
The introduction of an "accountability-free capitation" has seemingly driven a decline in the hours GPs work by creating a financial incentive to minimize patient service costs, and analyses indicate a significant decrease in the GP to population ratio, and a decline in GP work hours.
If current trends persist, this will likely exacerbate the GP capacity crisis. Remedies for this crisis first and foremost is to retain and extend the existing workforce and may include a significant increase in GP trainees and supportive career planning, alongside a reconsideration of operating and business models in primary and community care settings.
This report advocates for new investment in innovative community healthcare practices, individual budget holdings, and social investment approaches, and it underlines the urgent nature of this crisis, indicating an increasing demand for GPs in the future.
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Emeritus Professor Des Gorman (Ngāti Kuri and Ngāpuhi) is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland, he has a BSc, MBChB and MD degrees from the University of Auckland, as well as a PhD from the University of Sydney.
Dr Murray Horn started his career as a government official with the Treasury, including five years as secretary to the Treasury, he has since served on the boards of a number of major New Zealand organisations, including Telecom/Spark, National Health Board and China Construction Bank.
This article was first published HERE
If current trends persist, this will likely exacerbate the GP capacity crisis. Remedies for this crisis first and foremost is to retain and extend the existing workforce and may include a significant increase in GP trainees and supportive career planning, alongside a reconsideration of operating and business models in primary and community care settings.
This report advocates for new investment in innovative community healthcare practices, individual budget holdings, and social investment approaches, and it underlines the urgent nature of this crisis, indicating an increasing demand for GPs in the future.
Emeritus Professor Des Gorman (Ngāti Kuri and Ngāpuhi) is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland, he has a BSc, MBChB and MD degrees from the University of Auckland, as well as a PhD from the University of Sydney.
Dr Murray Horn started his career as a government official with the Treasury, including five years as secretary to the Treasury, he has since served on the boards of a number of major New Zealand organisations, including Telecom/Spark, National Health Board and China Construction Bank.
This article was first published HERE
3 comments:
Hard to take it seriously if it doesn't start with abiding by the principles of the treaty and decolonising everything.
Call me picky, but could the professor explain why his tribal connections have any relevance at all. His credentials are as a result of self determination and hard work.
Any connection to Maori is purely by chance and does not define anyone.
@mudbayripper - Don't you appreciate that such information is essential - not to about 95%+ of the population who couldn't give a rat's, but to those very few that might come from the same lineage in order that they might stand in some reflected glory. For the other 4.9%-odd that might have some interest, it's so they can identify their old enemy if they were thinking of exacting some utu.
In the retired Professor's case, like in most instances where these ancestral connections are cited, is it unfortunate that his European lineage is ignored. Obviously, any connection to the majority of the population (in this instance the "un-star-bellied sneetches") is of no import, to the point that mentioning it should be avoided at all costs.
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