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Budget 2025 offers limited relief for primary care
Justin Butcher | 22/05/2025

Following the pre-Budget announcement on rural and after-hours care, and the plethora of wide ranging workforce initiatives announced several months ago, Budget 2025 has fallen somewhat short for primary care. While we hoped for more, this year’s ‘fiscally restrained’ budget, is aptly named.

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Funding
Applications open: Primary and Community Health Workforce Development Fund
Pinnacle Incorporated | 05/05/2025

On behalf of Hauraki PHO, NHC and Pinnacle, we are seeking kaimahi, working in primary and community care who are interested in further education skills development or study support.

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Education Funding
Government’s health focus encouraging, but primary care needs clear investment
Pinnacle Incorporated | 12/03/2025

Pinnacle welcomes the focus on strengthening primary care access, investment in general practice, and commitments to digital health infrastructure.

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Equity Funding
Pinnacle welcomes investment in nursing workforce
Pinnacle Incorporated | 06/03/2025

Yesterday’s announcement in funding to boost primary care nursing is a well-deserved and much-needed investment in the sector. This initiative will help strengthen the workforce, improve access to care, and support the communities that rely on us.

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Practices Funding
Lowering bowel screening age welcomed, but reallocation of funding raises equity concerns
Jo Scott-Jones | 06/03/2025

Pinnacle welcomes the lowering of the age of eligibility for free bowel screening to 58 as a positive step toward earlier cancer detection, however, reallocating funding from the targeted Māori and Pasifika programme is inherently inequitable.

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People Equity Te Whatu Ora Funding
Investment in general practice a step forward, but success depends on implementation
Justin Butcher | 05/03/2025

Pinnacle welcomes the government’s announcements this week of increased funding and workforce initiatives for general practice. Primary care is under immense pressure, with workforce shortages and financial constraints making it harder for practices to provide timely care.

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Practices Equity Funding
Kia Puāwai - Māori and Pasifika Education Fund now open
Pinnacle Incorporated | 13/01/2025

Pinnacle is excited to reopen Kia Puāwai (our Māori and Pasifika Education Fund) for 2025. This fund, with a value of $15,000 (up to $5,000 each for up to three people), has been created to tautoko the continuous development and career progression of our Māori, and now also Pasifika, workforce.

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Equity People Education Funding
An important message from CEO Justin Butcher: Funding increase from 1 April 2025
Justin Butcher | 16/12/2024

It has been a tough year for health, and primary care in particular, but we are pleased to have identified opportunities to improve the way we fund our practices.

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Practices Funding
Summertime locum grant
Pinnacle Incorporated | 23/10/2024

The summertime locum grant was established to help ease the pressure some rural practices face during the peak holiday season such as an influx of patients and the increased costs in attracting and accommodating locums during these peak periods. 

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Rural Funding
Disappointing capitation moves us further away from Pae Ora goals
Pinnacle Incorporated | 27/06/2024

With the annual increase in funding for general practices falling well short of expectations, it’s difficult not to be cynical about the future of primary healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Advocacy Funding
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