Part-time doctors are working full-time hours to get through their workload, according to a study of hundreds of GP’s diaries.<\/p>\n
The research project, by the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, surveyed 400 doctors’ diaries over two weeks and found those with 22 hours of patient contact time a week generally ended up working the full 40 hours.<\/p>\n
It came down to the amount of time needed for clinical follow-up work, such as patient referrals and checking test results.<\/p>\n
Full-time GPs ended up working far more than their 40 hours – something Luke Bradford, a Tauranga-based GP and medical director at the college, said the industry had known but never quantified.<\/p>\n
His own experience was no different.<\/p>\n
When he presented the results of the Your Work Counts study at the GP24 conference in Wellington in July, he included a slide of reasons for doing the job. On it was a picture of two of his children asleep on his examination couch on a Saturday – “a fairly typical thing”, he told RNZ.<\/p>\n
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