Angus Chambers: GP Owners Association Chair on GPs having to raise their prices to keep up with running costs and patient demand

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

The state of New Zealand's general practices is being dubbed a crisis.

A GP Owners Association survey of about a quarter of GPs reports they're being squeezed by rising costs, high patient demand, and staff shortages.

It found nearly 60% have doctor and nurse vacancies, and about 70% are financially worse off than a year ago.

Chair Angus Chambers told Ryan Bridge that Government funding doesn't keep pace with running costs.

He says the Government must urgently overhaul the out-of-date funding model.

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