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Concern extra staff Govt committed to vaccinating people would stay in urban areas.
More detailed planning needs to be applied to the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in rural communities, doctors say.
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-retir...
"There's a just a general anxiety amongst already burnt out GPs in those areas," he said. COVID-19 modeller from Te Pūnaha Matatini, Shaun Hendy, said people's lack of access to their regular doctor was a worry because it could make them more reluctant to get a test. 'If they're out of their home town they may not know where the testing centres are. And if they're out at the beach those testing centres might be a long way away," he said. The big music festivals and concerts were a worry too. "If a case did make it through isolation of quarantine and then a border worker picked it up and went...