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The original was posted on /r/newzealand by /u/crypto_doctors on 2024-09-26 09:00:51+00:00.

We had a meeting today with all the managers and doctors after few weeks of a roller coaster ride in our practice. We have always struggled with long waiting times of patients and try our best to do walk in clinic and after hours. Despite all our efforts , our practice struggled to recruit doctors due to overwhelming workload and unable to pay enough to retain them. Although we try our best to meet everyone’s demands and look after our staff , despite fee increase our business was struggling for the last 6 months due to high cost of running and not enough funding from Te Whatu Ora/ Heath NZ. We had 3 senior GPs in our practice but one of the senior GP left us recently due to overwhelming workload and constant shortage of GPs . Our GP to patient ratio is roughly around 1:860 on average. So we recruited 2 GPs one a fellow and other a trainee. One of the junior GPs has attempted suicide recently and stated there is more pressure from the GP college to train in a particular way which is very different to how general practice actually works in the clinic and the fellow GP mentioned the tuition fee from college has gone up a lot and is struggling with paperwork and family life. Today we had a serious discussion if the practice is sustainable with current funding model and lack of adequate support for training or should we close down the medical centre. Just really gutted and struggling to find an amenable solution here.