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Critically understaffed and with Omicron looming, why isn't NZ employing more of its foreign-trained doctors?

  • Written by Johanna Thomas-Maude, PhD Candidate, Massey University
Critically understaffed and with Omicron looming, why isn't NZ employing more of its foreign-trained doctors?GettyImages

New Zealand’s critical shortage of specialist nurses made headlines again this week, but it’s not the country’s only pressing medical need.

The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) has estimated almost 3,000 more GPs and specialist doctors, and 12,000 more nurses, are needed to match Australia’s...

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