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Health NZ has gone back to the drawing board with this year's offer to increase funding for general practitioners.
After GPs pushed back on the initial offer sent out last Thursday, which included a lift to overall funding of 6 percent, a redrafted offer seen by RNZ shows a higher overall lift of 6.32 percent and a reworking of the rural funding formula.
Capitation is how the government funds GPs, giving clinics a fixed amount per patient each year, taking into account their age and sex, but this year it would also consider any comorbidities, deprivation, and whether a practice was in a rural area.
Under the initial offer, more practices would be classified as rural, making them eligible for extra funding.
