Another great success

Radio NZ reports:

An immigration service set up by Health New Zealand in October still has not recruited any overseas GPs almost eight months later.

Te Whatu Ora’s International Recruitment Centre aims to make it “as easy as possible” for international health professionals to move to Aotearoa.

But no internationally trained GPs are touching down on New Zealand soil, and some GPs trained here say the recruitment exercise is a waste of time anyway.

General Practice Owners Association (GenPro) chairperson Angus Chambers said New Zealand’s healthcare was in an unhealthy state.

“I’ve never seen access to primary care as bad as it is now,” he said.

Once again we see a big announcement, and no results.

We badly need more doctors in New Zealand. It will take 10+ years to get more doctors through expanding medical school numbers, so we need to be attracting them from overseas.