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November 2024 - General practice still waiting for funding review
October 2024 - General practices welcome fast-track approvals process
October 2024 - New Zealand should heed UK concerns with physician associates, invest in growing workforce
October 2024 - ‘Get ready for Flying Doctors’ - Fast-track Aussie approval increases urgency for NZ funding fix
October 2024 - Waikanae closure another symptom of funding debacle, urgent cure needed
September 2024 - GPs frustrated by funding model which restricts patient access, increases deaths from lung chancer
September 2024 - With unfair contracts harming primary healthcare, General Practice implores Commerce Commission to intervene
September 2024 - Shuffling deck chairs won’t fix GP funding crisis
September 2024 - Concerned about going broke, general practices hike fees and reduce services: survey
August 2024 - Adequate funding will help end GP shortage and improve patient care
August 2024 - Tairāwhiti primary care crisis 'the canary in the coal mine'
July 2024 - GenPro welcomes appointment of Commissioner to run Health New Zealand.
July 2024 - Inadequate funding from Health New Zealand puts further pressure on patients.
July 2024 - Fall in primary care enrolments highlights pressures on general practice.
June 2024 - GPs warn of fee increases and more closures if miserly 4 percent uplift confirmed.
June 2024 - Primary healthcare voice amplified by sector group accord.
May 2024 - GPs dismayed at Te Whatu Ora claims on the future of primary care.
January 2024 - Record numbers of GPs file warning notices.
January 2024 – GenPro concerned that the approach to childhood immunisations is missing the point.
January 2024 – Practices begin issuing Clause 14 Notices in relation to the NZNO Pay Equity Claim.
October 2023 – GenPro Chair announces new Board Members.
September 2023 - Next government must address serious issues in family doctor services.
August 2023 - Family doctor services under significant financial pressure.
August 2023 - GenPro disappointed by the comments of the Prime Minister.
July 2023 - GenPro welcomes an increase in urgent care funding.
June 2023 - GenPro welcomes new expert hands on the reins.
June 2023 - Newly-elected GenPro chair: "We have important momentum to maintain"
June 2023 - General practice leaders respond to imposed real-terms funding cut.
May 2023 - Nurse pay boost announcement is premature and insulting.
May 2023 - Budget will not prevent the further decline of family doctor services.
May 2023 - International Nurses Day should be a cause for celebration, not disrespect.
April 2023 - Nurses working in Family Doctor Services being treated with disdain.
March 2023 - Access to Family Doctor Services is Reducing.
March 2023 - Family Doctor Services Struggling as Hospitals Poach Nurses.
November 2022 - GPLF: General Practice in jeopardy.
November 2022 - How much evidence do you need, Mr Little?
November 2022 - Ignored Government Review Backs Family Doctors
November 2022 - General Practice Services are On the Brink. Save Your Family Doctor Service
November 2022 - Re-elected GenPro chair: "We're only just getting going!"
October 2022 - The Government's injection of health funding is failing to reach essential front-line services.
October 2022 - New voices join the call for sustainable general practice.
August 2022 - Federation of Primary Health - A gaping hole in funding for primary and community care.
June 2022 - Government announces real-terms decrease in funding for essential family doctor services.
June 2022 - GPLF - Stalemate as General Practice representatives express dismay at funding increase that will threaten services.
May 2022 - Potential loss of Medical Association is a sad day for New Zealand’s Health Sector.
April 2022 - Latest inflation figures could be the final nail in the coffin for many essential family doctor services.
February 2022 - New Zealand’s COVID response is collapsing amid on-the-spot decision making.
December 2021 - Omicron COVID response must be immediate, comprehensive and sustainable.
December 2021 - Parliament's Regulations Review Committee agrees with GenPro's complaint about Coroners Fees.
November 2021 - Over 80% of General Practices will not be offering services to support End-of-life Choice/Assisted Dying.
October 2021 - GenPro Board of Directors strengthened with appointment of new elected members .
August 2021 - New Caucus to lead General Practice contract negotiations.
July 2021 - Localities offer a great opportunity to focus on the needs of patients, but caution is required.
June 2021 - GenPro's complaint accepted by Parliament's Regulations Review Committee.
March 2021 - ED pressures are the result of a vicious circle faced daily by general practice.
December 2020 - GenPro calls foul on Government's funding proposal for primary health care nurses.
November 2020 - Long overdue changes to general practice funding are needed to protect New Zealand's hospitals and emergency departments.
November 2020 - Newly elected GenPro chair offers "hard-hitting political skills".
October 2020 - GenPro members elect board of directors.
October 2020 - General practice being short-changed by health funding agencies.
October 2020 - The Government is blocking pay-parity for primary health care nurses.
September 2020 - The "Double Whammy" of the general practice funding framework.
August 2020 - The Government's COVID response plan is at risk.
July 2020 - General Practice funding framework requires immediate repair.
July 2020 - Health funding bodies must take note of primary health care nurses "stop work" action.
July 2020 - Health and Disability System Review highlights greater need for sustainable General Practice.
May 2020 - Rejection of nurses pay offer comes as “no surprise”.
May 2020 - A special day to consider the future sustainability of Family Doctor services.
April 2020 - Urgent care and after hours clinics in severe crisis.
April 2020 - COVID-19 funding withheld. 21 April, 2020
April 2020 - GenPro launch.