Harriet Wilde

to meet the unmet need in the community, as well as working in a safe and sustainable way, we would need a third more doctors than we have right now.

Please come.

We would love to have you.

Aotearoa welcomes you.

And we are competing with every other country in the world because there is a global shortage of doctors.

New Zealand is not alone in that.

We're competing with every other country when it comes to attracting top medical talent.

The fast track to residency, I haven't seen any data on that.

numbers or if there's perceptions around that making it easier, but challenges with residency and immigration were certainly cited in our survey as being real difficulties for people that wanted to come and establish roots in New Zealand.

So changes around immigration settings for doctors is likely to have been of benefit to New Zealand.