Auckland GPs say they're fatigued and overworked as an overflow of winter patients diverted from emergency departments knock on their doors.
Twenty-seven clinics opened for free appointments in east and south Auckland at the weekend. Counties Manukau DHB funded them up to $350 per patient to help ease the pressure on Middlemore Hospital's emergency department.
But GPs say they are not the long-term solution to the crisis and more planning should have been done.
Amy Williams reports.
