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Rural GP Network chief executive Grant Davidson. Photo: Supplied The group says the government s tiered rollout plan does not make sense in remote areas like the East Cape, and they should be able to vaccinate small communities in one hit. Network chief executive Grant Davidson said he had not heard of any rural GPs getting the vaccine. We are in the middle of group two in which all front line workers should be vaccinated - we don t have figures on how many GPs have been given the vaccine because that information is held by DHBs, Davidson said. But anecdotally there very few and I haven t met any rural GPs that have been vaccinated. ....
Covid 19 coronavirus: Rural GPs vaccination delays raise concerns over rollout 3 May, 2021 04:15 AM 2 minutes to read Rural GP Network chief executive Grant Davidson. Photo / Supplied RNZ The Rural GP Network is asking how it can be expected to push ahead with the vaccine rollout when most of its doctors have not received their immunisation. The group says the government s tiered rollout plan does not make sense in remote areas like the East Cape, and they should be able to vaccinate small communities in one hit. Read More Advertisement But anecdotally there very few and I haven t met any rural GPs that have been vaccinated. ....
Patients had also suffered because of the knock-on effect of fewer appointments. In the last year permanent and short-term vacancies increased from 88 to 103 across rural GP practices, Davidson said. Meeting New Zealand medical council registration requirements, finding flights, getting a room and paying for MIQ were putting many potential recruits off. Supplied/Stuff Ōpunake Medical Centre owner and GP Nick Loveridge-Easther, left, hasn’t been able to fill a full-time role usually held by an overseas doctor. He took up an offer by his father Graham Loveridge, right, who is a semi-retired GP from Nelson, to help fill the gap for a few weeks. The doctors are pictured with one of their patients. ....
Meanwhile, seventy-one-year-old Lynne McLaughlin is ill with emphysema, a chronic inflammatory lung disease. But she won’t be able to see a GP at her medical centre in Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, for more than two weeks, and will head to the emergency department if her condition worsens. Ross Giblin/Stuff “It is just ridiculous,” she says. The difficulties the two women face point to a major general practitioner shortage across the country that was expected to worsen. On average, GPs are 53 years old and nearly half are due to retire over the next decade. But there aren’t enough doctors coming through to replace them, says Dr Bryan Betty, medical director of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP). ....