More GPs urgently needed, change recommended to primary care funding - report (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by ooo_shiny@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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I wonder when NZ will move away from the quasi-free-market-but-funded-by-the-government system in health (and education). It leads to outcomes like this which are clearly inefficient. I’d like to see more centralisation.

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[-] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly we couldn’t get into a good GP practice when we moved about 5 years ago, they were pretty much all not taking new enrolments. In fact the one that we did want to enrol at is still not taking new patients.

Some of them are now really strict and enforce time limits for appointments, not allowed to bring up more than one issue unless you make a double appointment. We had an amazing GP when my first daughter was born, always took time to answer any questions and never rushed us and gave lots of recommendations to look at.

Since moving away we haven’t had great experiences through a few different practices.