The Medical Association says the medical workforce is in a state of crisis and it has become increasingly frustrated that neither Labour nor National are spelling out what they would do about it.
The association says the major parties acknowledge that the medical workforce faces chronic shortages, but their recently released health policies barely touch on it.
Medical Association chairman Ross Boswell says the parties' plans to reduce student debt are ad hoc measures and insufficient to secure a stable health workforce.
Boswell says a worldwide shortage in many disciplines makes retaining specialists in New Zealand all the more difficult.
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