A podcast discussion highlights a significant rise in specialist referrals being declined across New Zealand, attributing the issue to systemic workforce shortages, lack of staffing targets, and inadequate access to care despite population growth and ongoing demand.
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No, that doesn't count as a rejection because if you're lucky enough to live in Belclusa, you're always going to get referred to Dunedin for that kind of care. So, but it is there are no workforce targets, right? So we've got targets. The government has set targets about health outputs, but they have not set targets about what we need to, as you say, plug in. So we are talking about decades of understaffing. Back in 2010, they set targets to try and get equivalent uh levels of um senior doctor staffing per population as Australia have. By 2014, they'd given up. We are ridiculously behind. What I would love to be talking to you about is that we have got New Zealand trained doctors coming home and that we are an attractive destination for the overseas trained doctors that we still desperately need. But in many, many specialties, um, standing vacancies remain, and there is nothing being done to encourage people to come back to encourage people to stay. And that's what we need to match the equation of access to care.
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Sarah Dalton: Association of Salaried Medical Experts Executive Director on the number of specialist referrals being declinedSpotted something wrong on this page? Report a correction.
