{"id":11257,"date":"2024-09-03T05:30:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2024-09-03T05:30:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T17:30:57","slug":"patients-queue-from-before-dawn-to-see-doctors-at-low-cost-south-auckland-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11257","title":{"rendered":"Patients queue from before dawn to see doctors at low-cost South Auckland clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of unwell or injured people desperate to see a doctor are queuing for hours outside a South Auckland clinic every morning.<\/p>\n<p>Local Doctors Otara is part of the Very Low Cost Access scheme, which subsidised GP appointments in communities with the greatest healthcare issues, and the greatest need.<\/p>\n<p>It charged a co-payment of $19.50 &#8211; which is significantly cheaper than many general practices or urgent care centres in Auckland, where appointments typically cost more than $60 per visit.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at the clinic had reported people queuing for hours before it opened, even through the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Local Doctors Otara is owned by T\u0101maki Health, which has more than 40 GP surgeries and clinics throughout New Zealand. Its chief executive Lloyd McCann told\u00a0<i>Checkpoint<\/i>\u00a0the daily queues to see a doctor were &#8220;a sign of desperate times&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of unwell or injured people desperate to see a doctor are queuing for hours outside a South Auckland clinic every morning. Local Doctors Otara is part of the Very Low Cost Access scheme, which subsidised GP appointments in communities with the greatest healthcare issues, and the greatest need. It charged a co-payment of $19.50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11259,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions\/11259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}