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Concerned About Going Broke, General Practices Hike Fees And Reduce Services: Survey
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 12:12 am | Genpro
Nine out of 10 general practices are increasing their patient fees to keep afloat as a new report shows the government is drastically underfunding primary healthcare. More >>
GPs Lay Complaint With Commerce Commission
Friday, 13 September 2024, 8:42 am | Genpro
Efforts by family doctors to keep GP visits affordable and cut waiting times are being impeded by unfair terms imposed on them by Health New Zealand |Te Whatu Ora. More >>
Primary Healthcare Voice Amplified By Sector Group Accord
Friday, 7 June 2024, 5:54 pm | Genpro
The two leading independent advocates for primary healthcare have signed an agreement to work together to tackle problems leaving communities without GPs and unaffordable consultation fees. More >>
Record Numbers Of GPs File Warning Notices
Wednesday, 31 January 2024, 7:28 pm | Genpro
A record number of essential family doctor services have filed Clause 14 notices saying they are worried about their ability to deliver services if a nurse pay equity claim is not fully funded. More than 155 Clause 14 notices had been filed by January ... More >>
GenPro Concerned That The Approach To Childhood Immunisations Is Missing The Point
Monday, 22 January 2024, 10:13 am | Genpro
GenPro is concerned that the move by the Ministry of Health to fund childhood immunisations by Pharmacy is a missed opportunity to strengthen the existing service already provided by General Practice. Dr Angus Chambers, Chair of GenPro says “General Practice ... More >>
General Practices Begin Issuing Clause 14 Notices In Relation To The NZNO Primary Practice Pay Equity Claim
Monday, 15 January 2024, 10:30 am | Genpro
GenPro has been copied into a rising number of Clause 14 notices issued since the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) lodged its Primary Practice Pay Equity Claim against General Practice employers in early December 2023. As of January 12th, 2024, ... More >>
Next Government Must Address Serious Issues In Family Doctors Services
Friday, 22 September 2023, 6:35 am | Genpro
The next government will need to act urgently to address the serious issues in general practice services that, left unaddressed, will lead to some communities losing their family doctor. The General Practice Owners Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (GenPro) ... More >>
Nurse Pay Boost Announcement Is Premature And Insulting
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 4:10 pm | Genpro
Stressed and struggling family doctor services are insulted by the government’s announcement today of pay boosts for general practice nurses aimed at reducing the unfair pay gap between them and their nurse colleagues employed in hospitals. General ... More >>
Government's Injection Of Health Funding Is Not Reaching Essential Front-line Services Which Are In Crisis
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 10:41 am | Genpro
Today’s planned walk-out of essential general practice nurses is the direct result of the continued underfunding of general practice by successive governments and the repeated failure to provide funding to address the significant pay disparities between ... More >>
Family Doctor Services At Risk As Government Announces Real-terms Decrease In Funding
Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 6:27 pm | Genpro
Family doctor services at risk as Government announces real-terms decrease in funding New Zealand’s general practice association, GenPro, says that the safety of the country’s network of family doctor services can no longer be guaranteed following ... More >>
New Zealand’s COVID Response Is Collapsing Amid On-the-spot Decision Making
Wednesday, 23 February 2022, 3:57 pm | Genpro
New Zealand’s COVID response has become a reactive series of on-the-spot decision making in the absence of credible planning and a lack of consultation and engagement with health providers whom the Government is now expecting to manage out-of-control ... More >>
Over 80% Of General Practices Will Not Be Offering Services To Support End-of-Life Choice/Assisted Dying
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 6:00 pm | Genpro
Assisted dying will become legal from Sunday 7 November 2021. This means that a person with a terminal illness who meets the eligibility criteria can request medication to relieve their suffering and end their life – as per the results of the 2020 ... More >>
GenPro Board Of Directors Strengthened With Appointment Of New Elected Members
Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 7:08 pm | Genpro
The General Practice Owners Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (GenPro), whose objectives include providing strong, credible and effective national representation for New Zealand’s network of General Practice and Urgent Care business owners, ... More >>
GenPro Calls Foul On Government’s Funding Proposal For Primary Health Care Nurses
Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 8:34 am | Genpro
The General Practice Owners Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (GenPro), the national representative body for contracted providers running general practice and urgent care centres across New Zealand, has today called foul on the Government’s proposals ... More >>
Long Overdue Changes To General Practice Funding Are Needed To Protect New Zealand’s Hospitals And Emergency Departments
Friday, 13 November 2020, 1:56 pm | Genpro
The General Practice Owners Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (GenPro), the national representative body for contracted providers running general practice and urgent care centres across New Zealand, has today repeated calls for changes to the general ... More >>
Newly Elected GenPro Chair Offers 'Hard-hitting Political Skills'
Friday, 6 November 2020, 8:10 am | Genpro
The General Practice Owners Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (GenPro), the only national representative body directly mandated by, and acting wholly for contracted providers running general practice and urgent care centres across New Zealand, has ... More >>
General Practice Being Short-changed By Health Funding Agencies
Thursday, 29 October 2020, 11:58 am | Genpro
GenPro, the General Practice Owners Association, whose objectives include supporting the sustainability and viability of members businesses and the services they provide, has today published a guide for its members in response to claims that already stretched ... More >>
The Government Is Blocking Pay-parity For Primary Health Care Nurses
Monday, 5 October 2020, 9:32 am | Genpro
The on-going failure to resolve primary health care nurses and administrators claims for pay parity is impacting upon patient care, it is damaging for all primary care staff and it is undermining the sustainability of essential general practice businesses. ... More >>
The 'Double Whammy' Of The General Practice Funding Framework
Thursday, 3 September 2020, 8:06 am | Genpro
As primary health care nurses and administrators commence an eight hour strike, it is the Government, through its DHB agents, who controls general practice income and holds the power to resolve this industrial action. That’s according to GenPro, ... More >>
The Government’s COVID Response Plan Is At Risk
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 10:54 am | Genpro
As New Zealanders prepare to vote in the forthcoming general election, the country’s first line of defence against further COVID outbreaks is being insulted and ignored by the Government and it’s District Health Boards (DHBs). That’s according to ... More >>