It lists requirements for responsiveness in order to ensure an improved and comprehensive primary care service for New Zealanders. Extended primary care teamGPNZ promotes greater integration within a structure it labels “extended primary care teams”. GP-owned practices have done Aotearoa New Zealand well, with strengths that should be retained, whichever way primary care evolves. There are three main structural tiers to the Cuban health system: community based polyclinics, general secondary care hospitals and sub-specialist tertiary hospitals. They extend into areas of sub-acute hospital care (less so surgery), including outpatient clinics and treatments with the necessary diagnostic support required.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 14, 2021 08:58 UTC