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Speaker 1: Heather Duper c l GP crisis has yet another chapter added.

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Speaker 1: In a survey from the General Practice Owners Association, nine

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Speaker 1: out of ten of them this is the gps have

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Speaker 1: either already or will increase their fees. Eighty three percent

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Speaker 1: are worried about their long term viabilities. Seventy percent or

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Speaker 1: worse off financially than they were a year ago. Royal

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Speaker 1: New Zealand College of GP's president Samann the Mertoners with

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Speaker 1: us Ha, Sam, Hey, how are y very well? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Now if they have already done the thing and raised

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Speaker 1: their prices, can we assume that everything's okay or are

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Speaker 1: they still going to be in financial difficulty?

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Speaker 2: I think it keep us going for the year, and

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Speaker 2: I think it's probably out of a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a hole that we're in currently. But it doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: that it's a long term.

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Speaker 1: What is the long term solution?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we need to sort of put into

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Speaker 2: effect the Priori Act, which was shifting a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of funding into primary care and making sure that we

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Speaker 2: can actually keep a sustainable worksource going forward, but also

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Speaker 2: businesses can keep sustainable and running. So it just makes

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Speaker 2: it means a shit of money from one one area

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Speaker 2: to another, so that we aren't filling up our hospitals

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Speaker 2: that we are making sure care can happen in the

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Speaker 2: community to time.

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Speaker 1: Of the eighty three percent who are worried about their

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Speaker 1: long term viability, how many of them do you reckon

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Speaker 1: are going to close?

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Speaker 2: I think we've seen practices that often we practices that

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Speaker 2: have got several maybe have branches to them, so and

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Speaker 2: maybe going to a smaller area where they need healthcare,

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Speaker 2: but there's no viable service at the moment, and they

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Speaker 2: would have put in a service and people are sort

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Speaker 2: of retrenching a little in that respect. So there will

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Speaker 2: be practices that do close because people who've been putting

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Speaker 2: out the best that they can for service can now

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Speaker 2: sort of go, well, actually, we can't afford to do

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Speaker 2: this extra, and so we're retrenching back and just doing

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Speaker 2: the minimum that we can possibly do for the most

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Speaker 2: people that we can possibly do it for. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: there will be some unclosing.

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Speaker 1: Samantha, thank you very much. I really appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: There's doctor Samantha Mrton the Royal New Zealand College of

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Speaker 1: General Practice as president. For more from Hither Duplessy Allen

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