由于初级医疗危机, 泰拉瓦赫塔最大的诊所三河医疗停止接收新患者, 并缩短营业时间. Tairāwhiti's largest practice, Three Rivers Medical, stops taking new patients and reduces operating hours due to primary healthcare crisis.
Angus Chambers博士警告说,Tairāwhiti初级保健危机可能标志着新西兰初级保健的崩溃,因为数十年来资金不足,而且供资模式存在缺陷,导致专业医生和医疗专业人员短缺。 Dr. Angus Chambers warns that the Tairāwhiti primary healthcare crisis may signal the collapse of primary healthcare in New Zealand, due to decades of underfunding and a flawed funding model causing shortages of specialist GPs and medical professionals. 拥有20,000名患者的Tairāwhiti最大的诊所Three Rivers Medical停止接收新患者并减少营业时间。 Tairāwhiti's largest practice, Three Rivers Medical, with 20,000 patients, stops taking new patients and reduces operating hours. 占新西兰一般做法一半以上的GenPro呼吁政府紧急干预,支持初级保健,修订供资制度,增加医疗专业人员的供应。 GenPro, representing over half of New Zealand's general practices, calls for urgent government intervention to support primary healthcare, revise the funding system, and increase medical professional supply.