Primary Care Taskforce

The Primary Care Taskforce was established in February 2023 to provide leadership to initiatives or models of care that improve access to acute and unplanned care for our populations most in need by relieving primary care capacity pressures.

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With the disestablishment of the Canterbury Clinical Network (CCN) in June 2024, Pegasus Health and Waitaha Primary Health are funding the Primary Care Taskforce to continue as a collaboration of system leaders to work on priorities that address capacity pressures in primary care.

This includes to:

Identify and progress short-medium term opportunities to enhance the recruitment or retention of the local primary and community workforce that compliment local and national activity; and provide leadership to implementing opportunities identified.
Explore and investigate short – medium term initiatives or alternative models of general practice that:
- Build on the existing work of the PHOs, Canterbury Community Pharmacy Group (CCPG) and the Canterbury Primary Response Group (CPRG) to improve access and gain operational efficiencies. For example, enhancing the uptake of Inbox management, and streamlining primary and secondary interface.
- Are aligned with implementing comprehensive primary and community care teams and the introduction of new roles. For example, increasing uptake of pharmacists working as an integrated part of general practice.
Provide an advocacy channel to national groups or organisations on matters that enable progress in addressing primary care capacity pressures.