Solutions to our healthcare crisis - Cecilia Robinson

THREE KEY FACTS: Our system currently lacks around 200 GPs. 37% of GPs planning to retire within the next five years. Projections indicate our shortage of GPs could reach 1000 by 2033.

Cecilia Robinson is a founder and co-chief executive of primary care provider Tend Health. OPINION This week, numerous articles have highlighted the critical issues plaguing primary care. As Dr Buzz Burrell starkly put it in a Herald article , “The primary healthcare system is sick.



The concept of a family doctor is already dead.”.