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Surge in GP surgery closures predicted due to financial struggles and staff shortages

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Family doctors in New Zealand are warning that more GP surgeries may shut down in the next year due to financial difficulties and staffing shortages.

This follows the closure of a large clinic in Tauranga and the potential shutdown of Invercargill’s after-hours service.

Recently, a GP practice in Lower Hutt stopped face-to-face consultations due to a critical staff shortage.

Dr. Bryan Betty, Chair of General Practice New Zealand, told state media of his concern over the rising costs and an ineffective funding model, which he claims are causing significant pressure on the healthcare system. He noted that up to half of GP surgeries are now restricting access or not taking new patients, leading to “poor health outcomes” for the community.

The situation has severe implications for public health, as limited access to primary care can result in untreated conditions escalating to emergencies. This increases the burden on emergency departments and hospitals.

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  1. Except in the case if an accident or emergency I don’t go and see a doctor. They just give you drugs which relieve the symptoms but don’t deal with the root cause. For instance I had diabetes for decades and various doctors just gave me metformin. Not one if them suggested I should stop eating sugar and ultra processed food or recommended minerals, vitamins and supplements that could help.
    But I researched the natural way to get rid of diabetes and have been free if it for 2 years now and lost 20kg of weight as well.

  2. If they hadn’t fired half their industry for refusing dangerous MRNA poison , there would be no staff shortage 😊🤷🏼‍♂️

  3. Maybe allopathy has had its day. Covid exposed it for the money making machine it is. The population will be healthier without it. Especially the children. There are already alternatives coming into being and many that have been known for centuries re-appearing..

    Doctors treating Aukland farmer Alan Smith had decided it was time to turn his life support machine off, until a timely intervention by his family and Vitamin C, saved his life
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrhkoFcOMII
    Read Adelle Davis ‘Let’s Get Well’

  4. The Globalist PTB want us all dead…as per the former Georgia Guidestones, the Deagel Report, and the mass culling of the human race as per Henry Kissinger, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Bill Gates and the Rothschilds!
    They do this by orchestrating the shrinkage of medical care (or denying the same to those who are politically IN-correct, blacklisted, or on watch lists as ‘Targeted Individuals’), Holodomor, out-pricing the cost of food making it unaffordable, and spreading manufactured diseases and weaponised vaccines…all designed to kill us off!
    After all, the J3wi$h elite have their bunkers ready…

  5. Check out NZDSOS’s recent newsletter release, verifying the criminality of those in the PTB that are slithering out of accountability!

  6. Eg $50 per 15 min consult. Eg each Dr sees 20 patients per day. Nurse maybe $25 per patient, 20 patients per day. I wonder if there are subsidies to add? There must be big overheads to pay as it seems to be a reasonable and steady daily income. Something to ponder

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