20 Feb 2025

Health NZ's Chief Medical Officer on future for primary health

From Nine To Noon, 9:20 am on 20 February 2025
Professor Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard

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GPs here are struggling with what they say is inadequate funding and crippling workloads leading to burnout.

They're asking the new Health Minister Simeon Brown to intervene urgently.

Health New Zealand's Chief Medical Officer, Dame Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard is a former Chair of the UK Royal College of General Practitioners, and a frontline NHS GP throughout the pandemic.

She talks with Kathryn about what she sees as the future for the primary health care sector here