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Speaker 1: I've got a possible win for the General Practice Owners Association.

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Speaker 1: They reckon they've had some really big interest from GPS

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Speaker 1: and setting up their own PHO primary health organization to

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Speaker 1: take on the big private guys. Doctor and Angers Chambers

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Speaker 1: is the chair of the General Practice Owners Association and

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Speaker 1: with us Morning Angers.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: So I was reading some we yet about one hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixteen different GP practice is interested. Can you actually

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Speaker 1: handle a number that big?

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, I believe we can. But of course it

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Speaker 2: is an unknown because this is a brand new organization.

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Speaker 2: So we've got a lot of experience within our network

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Speaker 2: and some good people, so I believe we can achieve

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Speaker 2: that goal.

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Speaker 1: You would all worried that Health New Zealand won't say

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Speaker 1: yes or is it just a box ticking exercise. You

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Speaker 1: fill in the forms you send them and they go

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Speaker 1: yep off you go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's a little bit more complicated that but yes, look,

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Speaker 2: I do believe they'll approve it. I mean, I think

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Speaker 2: it's been difficult for them. They're stretched organization, they've got

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Speaker 2: trouble making decisions sometimes, but we believe we've fulfilled all

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Speaker 2: the required mons. But yes, there's a possibility they won't

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Speaker 2: approve it, but when you see the level of interest,

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Speaker 2: it would be I think brave to ignore that kind

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Speaker 2: of pressure from the general practice community.

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Speaker 1: What is motivating these guys to be so interested?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I think it's there's quite a few factors,

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Speaker 2: but I'd like to say number one is a kind

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Speaker 2: of a belief in our philosophies and our ability to deliver. So,

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Speaker 2: just to correct your jenfer is actually not forming a

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Speaker 2: PHR itself. It's kind of seed funded and facilitated the

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Speaker 2: forming forming of an affiliategy PHO. But look, there's there's

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Speaker 2: widespread satisfaction within a general practice community, and some of

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Speaker 2: it's because phos have somewhat gone off their path. We

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Speaker 2: believe and are doing things that aren't the best for

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Speaker 2: the general practices. And look, in amongst it all, we've

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Speaker 2: had years of underpanding extremely woeful workforce planning, which led

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Speaker 2: to some crisis crises that we're all well aware of.

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Speaker 2: I think phos are slightly wearing the heat from that

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Speaker 2: because of the general difficulties in providing a great service.

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Speaker 1: Hey, well, good luck with it, angus, and thanks for

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Speaker 1: keeping us in the loop. The Angers chambers excuse me,

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Speaker 1: Chair of the General Practice Owners Association. Lord, I should

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Speaker 1: have asked him about that while I had him as

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