Raumati Road Surgery - Maintaining Services

Raumati Road Surgery on the Kāpiti Coast leads as a great example of a practice pooling the skills of their GPs. Expanding and maintaining the range of services they offer in the now semi-rural area, and while key skills are being lost as the workforce decreases.

Kāpiti has now been reclassified as semi-rural due to the regions distance from a major hospital. GP Kirsty Lennon takes this as an incentive to keep skills, services as well community initiatives within the region, as to take pressure of patients travelling and secondary care.

Like other practices in the region, there has been a decrease in the number of GP’s and a loss of key skills. But by managing individual GP’s background experience and personal interest, Raumati Road is maintaining their range of services and more specific services too. Resolving speciality cases in the region through primary care.

This is helped by Raumati Road Surgery being a teaching practice too, like other practices they can upskill and train existing and emerging general practitioners to keep these skills and services available on the coast.

Although continuity of care is important to GP’s, to help in their current position, GP’s at Raumati are happy to offer their opinion and consultation to their colleagues in specific cases that are areas of interest and expertise. This all helps to keep the Kāpiti community supported locally.

We are proud of the methods being used by Raumati Road to mitigate the current pressures and manage reduced resources. Thank you for your efforts to keep care accessible within the Kāpiti Coast!