Shaping primary care in 2025: Exciting but challenging

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Shaping primary care in 2025: Exciting but challenging

from Bindi Norwell

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 03:42 PM

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ProCare chief executive Bindi Norwell foresees increased pressure on practices and PHOs to show how they are helping to achieve health outcomes for their patients [Image: Kreativorks on iStock]

Ahead of the release of the meso-level paper – set to shape the future of mid-level healthcare structures – Bindi Norwell, head of the country’s largest PHO, looks at the influences affecting primary care in the year ahead

“We anticipate seeing an increased shift in focus from reactive to proactive and preventive care” Since the turn of the decade, primary care has

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