Tairāwhiti's largest practice, Three Rivers Medical, stops taking new patients and reduces operating hours due to primary healthcare crisis.

Dr. Angus Chambers warns that the Tairāwhiti primary healthcare crisis may signal the collapse of primary healthcare in New Zealand, due to decades of underfunding and a flawed funding model causing shortages of specialist GPs and medical professionals. Tairāwhiti's largest practice, Three Rivers Medical, with 20,000 patients, stops taking new patients and reduces operating hours. GenPro, representing over half of New Zealand's general practices, calls for urgent government intervention to support primary healthcare, revise the funding system, and increase medical professional supply.

August 20, 2024
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