South Auckland GPs say burnout is a growing problem for the profession as doctors struggle to cope with increased workloads monitoring Covid-19 positive patients self-isolating at home. She said she was aware of a number of GPs in South Auckland who were leaving the profession because of burnout. But just over a month later GPs say they are monitoring increasing numbers of Covid-19 patients self-isolating at home. It needs to be adequately resourced in places like South Auckland where the people are working really, really hard." But as the numbers of people have increased in areas like South Auckland the role of primary healthcare providers in monitoring positive cases has grown rapidly.

Source: Stuff November 26, 2021 18:14 UTC