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Speaker 1: Now the government is embarking on a plan to fix

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Speaker 1: the sorry state of it in our health system. The

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Speaker 1: Health Digital Investment Plan is going to take ten years

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Speaker 1: and it aims to modernize and unify the digital systems

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Speaker 1: used in our health sector. Doctor Luke Bradford is the

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Speaker 1: President of the Royal College of GPS and with us Now,

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Speaker 1: Hi Luke, Hi, how you doing well? This is overdue though,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. We've been doing fragmented, piecemeal, bespoke

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Speaker 2: solutions that don't get delivered for years, so this is

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Speaker 2: something that we can at least build towards.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so what's the end goal?

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Speaker 1: Is it that you or any other doctor, any other

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Speaker 1: health any hospital whatever in the whole country can click

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Speaker 1: on my name and see all the stuff about my

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Speaker 1: medical history.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's some stuff on confidentiality there, but I'll

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Speaker 2: give you a real life example. I'm currently palliating. I'm

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Speaker 2: looking after forty four year old mother of three who's dying.

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Speaker 2: A year and a half ago. I wrote a letter,

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Speaker 2: because that's what we still do. We write letters to

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Speaker 2: the hospital. A hospital wrote her a letter, gave her

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Speaker 2: an appointment, but she couldn't get to because she has

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Speaker 2: to get a boat in order to get to the hospital,

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Speaker 2: so they sent her another one. She showed up, got

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Speaker 2: the boat, got there and someone was off sick and

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Speaker 2: so she had to go home. The cardiologist, cardiologist and

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Speaker 2: a renal doctor didn't talk to each other, didn't talk

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Speaker 2: to me, didn't talk to the patient. It's all ended

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Speaker 2: up with her in a heap and she's now going

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Speaker 2: to die of heart failure. At no point was there

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Speaker 2: a point where she could have picked her own appointment,

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Speaker 2: where she could have entered her own observations, where as

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Speaker 2: sugars were where we could have worked quickly to change

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Speaker 2: our medicines around us in real life, rather than waiting

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Speaker 2: months for letters to bounce back and forth. So that's

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Speaker 2: why it's needed.

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Speaker 1: So at the moment, some GP practices have got their

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Speaker 1: own systems right, is the goal basically to put it

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Speaker 1: all together.

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Speaker 3: So we're all using one system. Is that the goal?

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Speaker 2: No, I think it's going to be a click in

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Speaker 2: so that it works alongside the systems in because it's

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Speaker 2: not just GPS, GP's aged residential care, pharmacy, hospitals, all

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Speaker 2: of these providers, and so I think the idea is

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Speaker 2: that something sits that you can leap click into and

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Speaker 2: the patient will we have to access to Yeah, brilliant.

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Speaker 3: Hey, look, thank you very much. His hoping it goes well.

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Speaker 1: That's doctor Luke Bradford, Royal New Zealand College of GP's president.

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Speaker 3: Right, Heather, I will buy Chris Bishop a box of

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Speaker 3: beers if he ditches the Regional councils. Looks like you're

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Speaker 3: going to owe him that.

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Speaker 1: Hither Wayne Brown, someone needs to buy the man a beer.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Wayne Brown next.

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