Fix the Crisis in Primary Health
This means:
- Immediately implement pay parity to ensure nurses in primary health care and other sectors receive the same pay as Te Whatu Ora counterparts.
- Commitment to a sustainable funding model to build strong and stable primary care services.
- Commitment to growing and retaining the primary care workforce to meet the need in the community.
- Investing in prevention, health promotion and early intervention that strengthen whānau wellbeing across the life course, rather than focusing predominantly on acute hospital services.