8 Aug 2024

Part-time doctors working full-time hours to get through workload

From Checkpoint, 4:53 pm on 8 August 2024

Research done by the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners surveyed 400 doctors over two weeks. It found those with 22 hours of patient contact time a week generally ended up working the full 40 hours, thanks to the admin involved with patient referrals and test results, Kate Green