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Speaker 1: Government's making moves in the primary care sector. This afternoon.

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Speaker 1: They've announced an additional two hundred and eighty five million

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Speaker 1: dollars in performance based funding for gps. More on that

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Speaker 1: in a second. They'll be funding for one hundred training

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Speaker 1: placements for overseas trained doctors to try and get them

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Speaker 1: into GP practices here and on top of all of that,

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Speaker 1: GP practices will be paid an incentive to attract four

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Speaker 1: hundred graduate registered nurses a year. Simon Brown's the Health minister,

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Speaker 1: Minister good evening, good evening the children and eighty five

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Speaker 1: million dollars the performance based pay. What's the criteria?

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Speaker 2: That's about making sure that our GP practices are offering

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Speaker 2: timling or the books open. So it's about being able

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Speaker 2: to register new patients, setting patients within a timely manner,

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Speaker 2: and also being able to support the government's targets around

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Speaker 2: immunization and planned care as well. So those are the

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Speaker 2: things that will be incentivizing gps to support their patients with.

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Speaker 2: And this is about increasing the amount of funding they

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Speaker 2: get to hire more staff and be able to support

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Speaker 2: their practices to be able to do that for their patients.

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Speaker 1: But how do you get your practice moving faster until

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Speaker 1: you can hire more staff.

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Speaker 2: Well, ultimately, this is about incentivizing what we want for

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Speaker 2: New Zealanders, which is saying we want to have patients

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Speaker 2: being able to be able to be registered with a GP.

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Speaker 2: We want people to be able to be seen. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we hear the stories we're waiting two to three weeks

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Speaker 2: or more for an appointment. So it's ultimately, and that's

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Speaker 2: why we've also announced today the additional investment and workforce

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Speaker 2: around doctors and nurses. So today's is both doctors and nurses.

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Speaker 2: I guess they'll be listening to this manner.

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Speaker 1: They'll be listening to this minister and they'll be going,

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Speaker 1: hang on a minute, I'm working my butt off here.

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Speaker 1: I've got all the staff that I can afford to

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Speaker 1: have and we're all working around the clock, and you know,

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Speaker 1: how are you expecting them to do this well effectively?

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Speaker 2: They will be paid more money, That's what will be

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Speaker 2: going through. This is increased capitation fundings, more money no

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Speaker 2: GP clinics to be able to support the government's target.

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Speaker 2: It's around access to GP clinics. That's what this is

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Speaker 2: all about. Health New Zealand will work through some of

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Speaker 2: the finer details with GPS, so they'll be involved in

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Speaker 2: that process and finding become available from the first of

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Speaker 2: July this year.

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Speaker 1: With the overseas trained doctors, I found it incredible that

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Speaker 1: you have to do two years? Is that for every doctor?

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Speaker 1: So if someone gets trained in Britain, do they have

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Speaker 1: to come here.

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Speaker 2: And do doctors which are trained in a different, different jurisdiction.

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Speaker 2: They come to New Zealand and they are you know,

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Speaker 2: many of these people are doing jobs which are not

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Speaker 2: related to their qualifications. Yes, stories some of them are

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Speaker 2: driving driving ubers. Actually we want them in GP practices

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Speaker 2: and what they do is they find it very hard

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Speaker 2: to get the training placement to be able to get

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Speaker 2: there to get their qualification recognized in New Zealand. And

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Speaker 2: so this is making sure that not only can they

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Speaker 2: do the exam, but they can actually then do that

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Speaker 2: that training and that supervision in a GP practice rather

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Speaker 2: than a hospital, so they're able to actually boost that

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Speaker 2: GP workforce so that New Zealanders are able to get

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Speaker 2: more access to time and quality access to healthcare.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and that's for countries you're not talking about the

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Speaker 1: US and the UK and Germany.

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Speaker 2: There's a variety of rules and there is work that

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Speaker 2: we need to do to look at those rules as well,

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Speaker 2: and that's where the medical councils set a whole range

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Speaker 2: of different criteria and there's work sense to you, Like, no,

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Speaker 2: a lot of it does not make sense to me.

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Speaker 2: I'm focused on the patient, not on regulations and rules,

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Speaker 2: and so there is there is advice coming to me

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Speaker 2: around how we can look at at some of those

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Speaker 2: issues as well, because we actually want to make it

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Speaker 2: easier for people to come to New Zealand to practice

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Speaker 2: medicine totally and to be able to support patients. So

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Speaker 2: I'm really focused on that. There's more work to do.

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Speaker 2: This is about looking these are the current rules as

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Speaker 2: they stand right now, and it's about saying, actually we

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Speaker 2: want these doctors in GB clinics quickly supporting patients, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, So I mean Brown, appreciate your time, the Health Minister.

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