1 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: Questions, answers, facts, analysis, The Drive show you trust for 2 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: the full picture. Heather Dupas and Drive with One New 3 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: Zealand Let's Get Connected News talks. 4 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 2: At be Good Afternoon. The government has given the green 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 2: light to the Why Couple Medical School. The school is 6 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 2: set to have a focus on training GPS and rural doctors. 7 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 2: The government will put in lease money and the university 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: will put in more money than previously pitched. The Health 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 2: Minister is Simeon Brown High. 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 3: Simeon, Hello, Hev, how are you? 11 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,160 Speaker 2: I'm very well, thank you. Now, this is coming cheaper 12 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 2: than we originally thought. What did you get out to 13 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 2: make it cheaper? 14 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 3: Well, it's gone through a rigorous business case process with 15 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 3: the university to make sure that we're getting value for 16 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 3: money and that as you go through those processes that's 17 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 3: what you achieve. But also we've now made the decision 18 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 3: based on that business case to press go, and the 19 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 3: university is part of that has agreed to put in 20 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 3: more funding alongside it's philanthropic donor base to support what 21 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 3: is I think a historical day for New Zealand, which 22 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 3: is that we will now have a third medical school 23 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 3: training doctors in this country. 24 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 2: Okay, and have you cut anything out to make it cheaper. No. 25 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 3: Ultimately, this is delivering the same number of doctors per 26 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty doctors per year from when it opens, 27 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 3: So it's delivering the same number of doctors. It invests 28 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 3: in new clinical teaching space, it delivers the clinical placement 29 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 3: placements across the regional communities that it will serve. And 30 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 3: as I said, a historical day for New Zealand partnering 31 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 3: with the Waikato University and their donors to ensure that 32 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 3: New Zealand has a third medical school which secures medical 33 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 3: training for many years to come in this country. 34 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 2: Was it cheaper to do this or was it cheaper 35 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: to increase the number of students at Auckland and Otago 36 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 2: by the same number. 37 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 3: Well, firstly, we're doing both over the course of the government. 38 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 3: We are increasing the number of doctor training places by 39 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 3: one hundred across the University of Auckland and the University 40 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 3: of Otago. It is more cost effective on it in 41 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 3: terms of this is a four year program rather than 42 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 3: a six year program, so there's the cost per student 43 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 3: is less through this program because it's a post graduate 44 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 3: degree rather than a graduate degree. Which is through the 45 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 3: other universities. And fundamentally that's a critical point because this 46 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 3: is about attracting a broader range of people to become GPS. 47 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 3: These are people who could have graduated in another field. 48 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 3: They may be working as a nurse or a paramedic, 49 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 3: want to train an up skill to be a doctor. 50 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 3: This is about attracting people from those rural communities working 51 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 3: and potentially in healthcare and a different role, giving them 52 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 3: the opportunity to upskill become a doctor, train in place, 53 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 3: in place view to those communities where it had to 54 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 3: attract and retain medical professionals. So this is a significant 55 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 3: and historic day for New Zealand and particularly for our 56 00:02:58,040 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 3: royal communities. 57 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 2: You I mean us on GPS and rural doctors. Will 58 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 2: it have the ability to train further than that? Can 59 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 2: you go into a speciality like a surgeon. 60 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 3: Well, that's as doing your degree, that's what this is 61 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:17,839 Speaker 3: about being becoming a doctor. After that, then of course 62 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 3: there are a range of specialties that become available, whether 63 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 3: that's general practice or other specialties. Those pathways will still exist, 64 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 3: but this is about identifying people who wish to train 65 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 3: with that specialty of being a GP of working in 66 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 3: rural health in mind and ultimately encouraging them through the 67 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 3: placements to work in those communities so that we can 68 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 3: retain and attract people into those communities where it is 69 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 3: hard to staff and when it comes to healthcare. 70 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 2: Thanks, Amine appreciate it, so me and Brown Health Minister. 71 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: For more from Heather du Glassy Allen Drive, listen live 72 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: to news talks. 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