Friday, 2 April 2021, 2:39 pm
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
has today released the results of its biennial Workforce
Survey showing that changes need to be made at a Government
level to ensure the sustainability of community medicine in
New Zealand. See the Workforce Survey: https://tinyurl.com/2020WorkforceSurvey
Aging
and retirement intentions
The College has previously
highlighted the serious issue of burnout amongst GPs and
rural hospital doctors with the Workforce Survey showing
that burnout levels were at 31 percent in 2020, up from 22
percent in 2016. That coupled with the numbers of GPs who
intend to retire in the next five years (31 percent) and
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