A prediction of even worse waiting time ..... with a severe shortage of medical specialists
A prediction of even worse waiting time ..... with a severe shortage of medical specialists
6 June 2019
The Salaried Medical Specialists association says the service is short a thousand specialists - and demand is growing.
It believes by 2028 demand will have outstripped the expected increase in specialists.
Director of policy and research, Lyndon Keene, says there's a recruitment problem.
He says about 40 percent of specialists in New Zealand are from overseas, and many don't stay long.
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