The New Zealand Rural General Practice Network supports the General Practice Leaders Forum’s response to the proposed capitation funding increase for general practices which falls miserably short. The ...

Different methods of funding for healthcare, if designed and implemented well, do not negatively affect quality of service at hospitals. If wastage and unnecessary procedures can be removed, it ...

In 2002 the then Labour-Alliance government implemented what was known as the Primary Health Care Strategy. A key feature was replacing the system of funding general practices from demand driven ...

This paper evaluates the development of primary dental care by the four first wave personal dental services (PDS)pilots which introduced locally agreed remuneration arrangements for adult care based ...

The average capitation for government-sponsored students in private universities dropped to its lowest in the year ended June 2023—the last year of the programme — highlighting the funding woes that ...