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Speaker 1: Afternoon. We've got some good news finally for GPS. Their

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Speaker 1: funding is being shaken up. They've previously been funded for

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Speaker 1: their patients age and sex, but now that will also

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Speaker 1: include underlying health conditions and deprivation. Doctor Samantha Merton is

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Speaker 1: the president of the Royal New Zealand College of General

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Speaker 1: practitionersm with us high Samantha.

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Speaker 2: Hi, how are you well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Is this going to reduce wait times for GPS?

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Speaker 2: There's the package as a whole will help us to

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Speaker 2: reduce wait times, and the reason being that not only

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Speaker 2: is there the more funding for capitation and for people

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Speaker 2: that met have higher needs, but also there's more funding

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Speaker 2: for our trainees so that we can get more through.

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Speaker 2: So both of those packages will help us.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So it's not because the fear initially was that

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Speaker 1: there was going to be the same same, same pot

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Speaker 1: of money that's just split up slightly differently, But actually no,

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Speaker 1: there is more money.

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Speaker 2: Is there's well, we believe that what will happen is

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Speaker 2: that it comes in in twenty twenty six. I can't

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Speaker 2: imagine that they're going to cut down our capitation as

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Speaker 2: a whole so that some practices we can't have practices

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Speaker 2: losing money, so therefore practices that will We would hope

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Speaker 2: that it would stay level for everybody, but there are

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Speaker 2: those patients that are either high needs with home abidity

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Speaker 2: like lots of conditional health conditions, in deprivation areas or

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Speaker 2: in rural areas will get more funding.

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Speaker 1: So is it fair to say that if your GP

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Speaker 1: is in a nice part of town, you're probably not

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Speaker 1: going to see much change, but if you are in

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Speaker 1: a more deprived, poorer part of town, or in a

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Speaker 1: rural part of town, you're more likely to see there'll

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Speaker 1: be more funding there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And it is about patients. It's about the patients

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Speaker 2: who need it. And I think what we don't recognize

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Speaker 2: is that people who are in deprived areas do need

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Speaker 2: more care. And if the fundings are saying of someone

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Speaker 2: who doesn't need the extra then the GP services struggle

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Speaker 2: to make sure that they're putting that extra care in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. Now you have a target. There is a

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Speaker 1: target of GP practice is seeing eighty percent of patients

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Speaker 1: within the week, which I think Cackson mid next year

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Speaker 1: is that doable.

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Speaker 2: I think it could be doable. There's things like infrastructure

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Speaker 2: change as far as how you set up your patient

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Speaker 2: acute appointments and how you run your clinics and how

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Speaker 2: you look after the patients that you're looking after. Normally anyway,

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Speaker 2: we wouldn't want that to be the only way that

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Speaker 2: you could get an appointment that it has to be

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Speaker 2: within the week. We want people to still have choice.

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Speaker 2: So if you rang up and said, oh, look I'm

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Speaker 2: away in a week's time, but can I see you

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Speaker 2: in two weeks time, that should still be allowed. You

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Speaker 2: should be able to see them the next day. So

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Speaker 2: there should be choice. But also we should be able

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Speaker 2: to say, well, actually, if you've got a high need

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Speaker 2: or urgent kick requirement that you would absolutely be seeing

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Speaker 2: within a week.

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Speaker 1: Samantha, Thanks very much, doctor Samantha the Merton, President of

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